Slidedeck from LegUP talk in June 2014. 3 parts discuss the importance of understanding how the brain uses memory and senses to help you be social and to be happy. Also how important it is to understand the natural changes in memory over life. You can see a video of the event at http://new.livestream.com/L4L/futureedtech/videos/54235096 You can learn about workshops that enable greater understanding at www.sensoryUX.com

1. LegUP
London
June 2014

2. Alastair
@acuity_design

3. www.sensoryUX.com

4. Memory and Minds
Memory and Age
Memory and Senses

5. 2 warnings

6. Neuroscience is not
certain

7. Neurotypical persona
&
neuro-spectrum

8. Memory and Minds

9. Our brains are social

10. We remember what
we want to share

11. Think about Playgrounds
and Schoolrooms

12. Memory activation is
keyed around
knowledge that is
shareable for social
advantage or
harmonisation

13. Sharing underlies
memory and stories
are how they are
shaped

14. Be careful

15. Narrative is strong

16. It can be difficult to
dislodge false stories

17. Neuroergonomics

18. Narrative has weight

19. 3 useful ideas

20. Create perceivable
information

21. Enable tolerance of
error

22. Design for low effort

24. Memory and Age

25. Our brain wants to
help us

26. To be social

27. To be happy

28. Memory changes
over life

29. Why?

30. Memory changes as
our capabilities and
needs change

31. Our brain works
round physical
changes and
impairments

32. A few moments of
your memory life

33. Baby

34. Embedded
capabilities

35. Young Person

36. Childhood Amnesia

37. Youth

38. Memory Bump

39. Middle Age

40. Nostalgia

41. Old Age

42. Anecdote

43. Design to work with
the life rhythm of
memory

45. Memory and Senses

46. Memory recall needs
our senses

47. We remember the
past with the senses
of the present

48. Hippocampus is like
Grand Central Station

49. We reassemble
memories from
current sensory
information

51. Create
multimodal
sensory
learning
moments
Maintain
strong
sensory
actions
now

52. Use the present to
enable the past

53. Test for confusion

54. Watch out for audio
and timing

55. Design in alignment
with our brains and
memory

56. Questions?