Pre-Thesis Week 02 – article searching and keywords

2018.9.17

The process of searching Academic journals, dissertations, and review articles.

Articles searching:

Based on the card sorting results and possible ideas, I came up with some keywords for my ideas: 
– Dissociative Identity Disorder
– Synaesthesia
– Emotion
– Relationship

And with these keywords, I found these articles:

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Academic articles

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Reviews

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Dissertations

Reading articles:

Brown, A. S., & Marsh, E. J. (2009). Creating Illusions of Past Encounter Through Brief Exposure. Psychological Science, 20(5), 534–538. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02337.x

This is a research report on creating deja vu by briefly show some symbols to subjects. It shows that instant stimuli can increase attributions to pre-experimental experience, that is, a brief exposure can enhance the familiarity of a nonstudied word. And people made misattributions to experience outside the laboratory, to a more distal time, which we also call a deja vu.

1. What does this do for me?
   From the result of the experiments, I figured out that people’s memory can be easily affected by a simple glance they even don’t aware of. I think we can use this theory in our designing of products–to create a sense of familiarity, a deja vu for our users, and let the feeling bounce within their memory.

2. What is interesting about this article?
   I think this research is very interesting because from the result of the experiments we can clearly see that the team start to find a way to simulate the cause of deja vu, and this is also a great entry point to find out how do our brains deal of memories. 

3. What questions is this making me ask?
   How do we use the deja vu theory to help us with innovative product design?

Basel, A. L. (n.d.). Emotions in the face : biology or culture ? – Using idiomatic constructions as indirect evidence to inform a psychological research controversy. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=59603797-9467-4f9a-a187-fdabc19fa690%40sessionmgr104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3D#db=ufh&AN=130446993

This article focused on the differences in the facial expression of emotions. It turns out that East Asians are used to have more emotions to be expressed in their eyes rather than low face area, which is why some tests about emotions always fail.

1. What does this do for me?
   This article is a great resource for me to reference in the future when I’m doing research, interview people and trying to find out what they are really want to say. 

2. What is interesting about this article?
   This article shed lights on how to measure emotions like fear and furious, based on the thought of having the cultural difference as an influencing factor.

3. What questions is this making me ask?
   Based on the finding in this article, how might we measure people’s emotion?

Wu, W., Zhang, H., Pirbhulal, S., Mukhopadhyay, S. C., & Zhang, Y. (2015). Assessment of Biofeedback Training for Emotion Management Through Wearable Textile Physiological Monitoring System, 15(12), 7087–7095.

This article talked about making a wearable device to measure negative emotions by monitoring HRV activities and help people with depressed adjust their feelings. HRV dynamics can be easily affected by the human’s physiological and emotional states. For example, positive and negative emotions can be distinguished by smooth or erratic heart rhythm patterns, respectively. 

1. What does this do for me?
   This article answered my question for the last article and found a biologic way to measure emotion changes. This makes me think that we might also have a similar way to monitor physical changes when DID(Dissociative Identity Disorder) patients suffering from their disease.

2. What is interesting about this article?
   The experiments results of this wearable device indicate that the way to decrease the bad influences of negative emotions is resonance respiratory training. I want to do more research into that.

3. What questions is this making me ask?
   How can the resonance respiratory training help people with DID?

Chiou, R., Rich, A. N., Rogers, S., & Pearson, J. (2018). Exploring the functional nature of synaesthetic color: Dissociations from color perception and imagery. Cognition, (April), 107–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.03.022

This article uses a novel psychophysical technique to
probe the nature of synaesthetic color and explore its impact on conscious vision. It identifies the commonalities and distinctions between normal, imagined, and synaesthetic color. The unique psychophysical profile of synaesthesia constrains theories about its neural basis and contributes to our general understanding of the different levels of representation in color processing. Synaesthetic color subjectively may resemble vivid normal color (while not veraciously mimicking it), but functionally it behaves more like color imagery that is not constrained to the inducer location, making it a unique experience.

1. What does this do for me?
   This article leads me into a totally new field–synaesthesia. It helps me understand that we can create a shared feeling through different sensory; either from visual to textile or from taste to smell.

2. What is interesting about this article?
   This article talks about conscious vision. I think this is very common but not aware enough by most people.

3. What questions is this making me ask?
   How might we create a synaesthetic feeling for people to understand what it is like to put oneself in other’s position?

Cleary, A. M., & Claxton, A. B. (2018). Déjà Vu: An Illusion of Prediction. Psychological Science, 29(4), 635–644. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617743018

This article discussed deja vu and the ability to predict by deja vu feeling.

1. What does this do for me?
   This article pointed out that although déjà vu can be driven by an unrecalled memory of a past experience that relates to the current situation due to research, it did not lead to above-chance ability to predict the next turn in a navigational path resembling a previously experienced but unrecalled path (although such resemblance increased reports of déjà vu). However, déjà vu states were accompanied by increased feelings of knowing the direction of the next turn. 

2. What is interesting about this article?
   This article supported the last article’s research result that deja vu can come from a previous memory, and thus it could strengthen the feeling of what is going to happen next.

3. What questions is this making me ask?
   How might we use the feeling of prediction to improve a product from the user flow?

Moodboards

Moodboard for Synaesthesia

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Deja vu

1. Synaesthesia
   This collage shows my understanding of synaesthesia. Though we have different sensory to feel the world, our sensories somehow connected with each other. This can come up with some interesting common stereotypes like blue with bitter.
   

2. Dissociative Identity Disorder
   This picture shows how it feels like to be a DID patient. They sometimes have talent taste for art while sometimes are totally lost in the universe of emotions.
   

3. Deja vu
   This image shows the interesting process of our brain dealing with memories. As time pass by, our memory could be affected by what we saw just a minute ago. Human has always been so obsessed with deja vu and always thinks it is romantic and magic, and sometimes, mean-to-be.