Research of software human-computer interface based on cognitive psychology

Abstract

With the development of society, people's pursuit and attention transferred from the material content to spiritual satisfaction. People dislike the interface of software is lifeless and frosty in every day use, people have emotional needs, and software design also needs to meet people's spiritual needs.in software world, the need of user is not only function of software, more important is enjoyable experience and good feelings when interactive with computer. The perfect interaction relationship between software and human make the software not only become a tool, but also like emotional partner. interface is an interactive media between man and computer, the learning, understanding, mastering of software is experienced a cognitive process from shallow into a deep. The people's cognitive process includes: perception, attention, memory, thinking, associate, emotional experience. Primary cognitive stage lay foundation for the advanced stage of emotional experience. How to design the human-machine interface to make users reaches perfect experience, satisfying the customer emotional demands? This issues is discussed how the interface design will be to satisfy people's emotion need, according to cognitive psychology. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.