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2019 Vol. 25, No. 1
Published: 2019-03-01
 
3 User-Centered Design (III): Methods for User Experience and Innovative Design in the Intelligent Era
XU Wei
After more than 20 years, with the advent of the intelligent era, the practices of user-centered design (UCD) have begun to enter the third stage focusing on the UX and innovative design of intelligent systems. The practices of UCD in China have also begun to enter the deep water area. Current UCD methods were mainly developed based on the needs of non-intelligent systems, and there is a lack of systematic and effective methods for UCD practices in delivering UX and innovative design for intelligent systems. Human factors related disciplines should take the responsibility to provide academic support in the aspects of theory and method. This study suggests 11enhanced UCD methods, a UX-driven innovative design conceptual model, and 9 UX-driven innovative design methods. In addition, in support of designing complex intelligent systems, this study proposes to adopt 6 new methods from the human factors related disciplines. Finally, the paper puts forward suggestions for improving human factors theories to support the design work of complex intelligent systems, transferring human factors theories from mature domains to the intelligent systemsdomain, developing more experimental evidence-based human factors design theories.This study shows that human factors related disciplines can help enhance UCD methods for the UX and innovative design of intelligent systems.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 3-17 [Abstract] ( 874 ) PDF (817 KB)  ( 4302 )
18 Priming global and local processing of composite faces: An EEG study
WANG Li-liang
Using the composite-face illusion and the Navon patterns, it has been showed that the global/locallevel processing of the Navon patternsinfluenced the holistic processing of faces within a trial. The composite-face illusion reflects the difficulty to ignore one half (e.g., bottom) of a face when the two aligned halves are incongruent. However, the neural mechanism supporting this effect remains unknown. Since a functional hemisphere asymmetry exists for the global versus local processing,with the left hemisphere (LH) and right hemisphere (RH) tunes to the local and the global processing, respectively, we predicted that the priming effect might be related to the modulation of the relative involvement of the LH and the RH. The current study tested this hypothesis by comparing the alpha band (8-12 Hz) activity in the EEG recorded at posterior right and posterior left hemisphere sites while participants processed the global/local level of Navon patterns. Participants first made a same/different judgmentto the global or local level of two Navon stimuli and then matched the upper halves of two face-composites presented sequentially.We found that the global versus local processing modulated the composite-face illusion, however, the alpha band activity exhibited significantly strongeractivities in the RH than in the LHin both priming levels. These results imply that the priming effect is not due to the modulation of the relativeinvolvement of the LH and the RH.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 18-31 [Abstract] ( 282 ) PDF (1367 KB)  ( 479 )
32 The measurements of mental stress and new methodologies
YAN Lin-lin, LUO Hong, WEI Jing, FU Gen-yue, LEE Kang
Mental stress will not only reduce the work performance, but also lead to cardiovascular diseases and psychological disorders. The article first addressed four types of psychological stress assessment methods: stress appraisal measurement, affective responses measurement, stress hormones measurement and cardiovascular response measurement, as well as their advantages and disadvantages. Then a facial Transdermal Optical Imaging technique was introduced to monitor people’s real-time dynamic changes in mental stress level remotely. The novel technique uses a conventional digital camera to video record the people’s faces from a distance, analyzing the hemoglobin concentration changes underneath the facial skin to obtain the physiological indices of mental stress, such as heart rate variability (HRV) etc. Therefore, it can be widely used in scientific research and practical applications, such as medical monitoring, psychological research, marketing etc.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 32-47 [Abstract] ( 666 ) PDF (2177 KB)  ( 2097 )
48 The Effect of Awe on Ethical Risk-TakingPropensity
LI Ming, LI Man-wai, LI Wen-qiao, GAO Ding-guo
The current research investigated how awe would affect people’s risk-taking propensity across different domains and whether the effect would be moderated by their emotion regulation strategies. In two studies, 148 participants were induced to feel awe versus happiness (Study 1) or versus neutral emotion (Study 2). After the mood induction, participants completed scales assessing their risk-taking propensity in different domains and emotional regulation strategies. We found that participants who experienced awe showed less risk taking in the ethical domain (but not other domains) than did those who experienced happiness. In addition, participants with higher level of emotional suppression showed less risk taking in the ethical domain but more risk taking in the financial domain in the awe condition (versus happiness condition). Finally, participants in the awe and neutral emotion condition did not show any difference in risk-taking propensity across domains, suggesting that awe may have similar effects as neutral emotion on risk taking.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 48-58 [Abstract] ( 538 ) PDF (1294 KB)  ( 1576 )
59 The Effect of the Actor’s Intention on Generalized Reciprocity
SUN Zhong-qiang1, LI Yue-jiao1, XUE Pan-pan1, YIN Xi-yang1, YU Wen-jun2,3
Generalized reciprocity is the phenomenon that individual treats others in the way which other people treat them in the past. By adopting Dictator’s Game in the current study, we investigated the influence from the dictator’s intention on responder’s generalized reciprocity. We found that (1) when the responder was given money more than half of the total, he would give another stranger more money in intended-behavior condition than unintended-behavior condition; otherwise, the results were on the opposite; (2) the responder in negative intention condition would gave fewer money to the stranger than positive and no intention conditions, while those in the latter two conditions were non-significantly differed. Current findings reveal the manipulation from intention information on generalized reciprocity, especially that negative intention impacts more effectively than positive intention does.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 59-68 [Abstract] ( 308 ) PDF (1499 KB)  ( 1043 )
69 New Generation Migrant Workers’ Educational Level and Their Creativity: The Role of Core Self-Evaluation
ZENG Kai, DUAN Jin-yun, TIAN Xiao-ming, ZHU Wei-wei
The existing researches have largely neglected the creativity of the new generation migrant workers. This study analyzed the new generation migrant workers through the 803 questionnaires, verifying the effect of new generation migrant workers’ educational level on their creativity. Study 1 explored how new generation migrant workers’ educational level impact their creativity through the mediating role of the core self-evaluation, study 2 proposed that the mediating role of core self-evaluation can be divided into the ability of knowledge integration and creative personality, in such way that the ability of knowledge integration played the true mediating role between new generation migrant workers’ educational level and their creativity, while creative personality moderated this mediating role. This study provides theoretical support and practical inspiration for exploring the creativity of the new generation migrant workers.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 69-79 [Abstract] ( 391 ) PDF (1071 KB)  ( 1158 )
80 Self-esteem and life satisfaction: A mediated moderation model of social anxiety and life experience of blind and sighted adolescents
LU Ai-tao, ZHENG Shuang, LI Mei-rong, HONG Xiu-xiu, LING Hong
The present study investigated the moderating role of being blind or not in the relationship between self-esteem and life satisfaction, as well as the mediating role of social anxiety in the link. Participants were 66 blind adolescents (53.0% boys; mean age = 14.02 years, SD = 1.97) from a special education school and 149 sighted adolescents (48.3% boy; mean age = 13.04 years, SD = 1.11) from a local school. They were asked to complete questionnaires regarding self-esteem, life satisfaction and social anxiety. Our results indicated that the effect of self-esteem on life satisfaction was stronger in blind adolescents than that in sighted adolescents. Furthermore, social anxiety mediated the relationship between self-esteem and life satisfaction, with the stronger effect of social anxiety on life satisfaction in blind adolescents. Additionally, it was found that the interaction effect that blindness or not and self esteem exerts on life satisfaction culminates in decreased social anxiety. Our results highlighted the important role of social anxiety in blind adolescents’ lives. Potential interventions for increasing blind adolescents’ life satisfaction are discussed.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 80-94 [Abstract] ( 626 ) PDF (929 KB)  ( 1489 )
95 Mathematical Formulas of Unconscious Activity
TANG Xiao-wei
The properties of unconscious activity are discussed and mathematical formulas of unconscious activity are proposed, including the formula of relation between unconscious items with different contents, the formula of mind-brain relation of unconscious activity, the formula of mind-body relation of unconscious activity, the formula of mind-environment relation of unconscious activity, and the formula of the condition of transition between unconscious activity and conscious activity.
2019 Vol. 25 (1): 95-96 [Abstract] ( 251 ) PDF (564 KB)  ( 618 )
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