Context, Content, and Cognition: Creating Usable Content in the Age of AI

  • Presentation
  • User Experience
  • 25. September
  • 15:30 - 16:10 PM (CEST)
  • Prof. Dr. Kirk St.Amant

    Prof. Dr. Kirk St.Amant

    • Louisiana Tech University

Contents

This presentation examines psychological factors affecting how individuals interact with content when using different content and designs. The presenter reviews cognitive processes related to the locations where individuals use content affects how users respond to and interact with textual, visual, and other kinds of technical content.  In examining these topics, the speaker will note the limitations -- and the uses -- of AI to create usable content for different contexts.  The speaker will also note how technical communicators can use such approaches to reveal the value they add to organizations and how they need to become part of product development teams.  

Takeaways

The psychological factors influencing how individuals interact with designs when using different kinds of content and how the settings where individuals use content shape and are affected by such factors -- particularly related to AI.  

Prior knowledge

No prior knowledge of topic needed.

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Kirk St.Amant

Prof. Dr. Kirk St.Amant

  • Louisiana Tech University
Biography

Kirk St.Amant is the Eunice C. Williamson Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University and is a member of the University’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS).  Kirk serves as the Director of Louisiana Tech’s Center for Health and Medical Communication (CHMC) and is also an Adjunct Professor of Health and Medical Communication with the University of Limerick and a Research Fellow in User Experience Design with the University of Strasbourg.  He researches how cognition affects usability and design with a focus on international health and medical settings and on international online education.