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Enjoy CSI Las Vegas, Lie to Me; Enjoy User Studies
30Jun2009 Filed under: User Tests and Study Author: TGAbout two years ago, TG at Kelikuru.com was a fan of Crime Scene Investigation Las Vegas (CSI:LV), fascinated by watching its episodes, characters and plots. Both William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger are great actor and actress, respectively. Interesting story-lines, intriguing idea to solve their cases and all characters have very unique personalities but share the same characteristic: Attention to Details
Today Kelikuru enjoy watching Fox’s compelling drama “Lie to me“. Dr Lightman ( played by Tim Roth) has the blessing of reading facial expressions and involuntary body language in such a way that he can find if someone is telling a lie.
Hey, anything to do with user research study or user-centric design? Certainly, the drama shows TG how to observe users while they are using our products. Don’t get me wrong, TG is not saying that our users are deliberate liers. It has been so common in the past cases that our users are not willing to tell the truth. It happens so often in Chinese community as our education and cultural belief make us to do so in order to save “face”.
Observing user behavior becomes the de facto method to figure out the gap between who we think they are and who those users really are. The drama was said to be based on the scientific research of Paul Ekman. who spent his lifetime to study human faces and categorize them into different “emblem”
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Kelikuru.com is 嘰哩咕嚕, a Chinese term basically means rumbling. The idea comes across TG's mind while watching a cartoon show on TV few years ago. We walk through our life,day by day ; speak to many people, known or unknown, year after year and we may not notice that there are so many wonderful things passing by. Writing a blog can literally leave my foot-prints in the internet world, help me keep the memory. At this moment, a big chunk of my life is closely aligned with user-centric design, user research, web-based environment both in Hong Kong and China. Perhaps I may not be like that tomorrow, I may be in other setting, have nothing to do with usability, but who knows what's going to happen next?
ada
June 30th, 2009 at 7:36 am
I guess working in the user research profession “encourages” us to be skeptical about what people say in general.
maidou
July 1st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
addicted to CSI too, both of LV and Miami series, haven’t give NY series a shot yet. And as soon as I heard of the Lie to Me fad, I downloaded one episode and then, stopped there. Don’t know, just don’t want to pursue, not too much attractive to me seems. lol
admin
July 12th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I also watched a couple of CSI Miami series, it’s awesome!!