Naive Realism: Misplaced Faith in Realistic Displays

摘要

A theory of why users and display designers prefer highly realistic, supposedly intuitive displays despite their poor performance. HUMAN FACTORS/ERGONOMICS (HF/E) is concerned with complex systems of users and technologies. For those systems to function effectively, the design of the technology must draw on underlying basic science. For example, the presentation of visual information should be informed by basic vision science, work space layout should be informed by anthropometry and physiology, and so on. In this article, we highlight an alarming disconnect between basic and applied science in the principles that explicitly, and through widespread folk belief, are driving the design of many visual displays. We review the evidence for a theory we call naive realism to account for this disconnect, discuss its origins and why it persists, and conclude with a discussion of design approaches to counteract it.