About me

Hi there, I'm Vivek, an engineer turned designer. My work primarily focuses on designing AI applications, and I am passionate about interaction design. Additionally, I have a keen interest in cognitive science and am familiar with app design.

What I've read in 2024

I enjoy reading on cognitive science, emtional psychology and design

What Makes Us Social?
Chris Frith and Uta Frith
"When we laugh with others, is this an example of empathy? As Zaki and Ochsner (2012) and other authors have pointed out,empathy is a multidimensional concept. It implies orienting toward others’ needs and experiencing personal distress when observing others in pain."

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What Makes Us Social?
Chris Frith and Uta Frith
"When we laugh with others, is this an example of empathy? As Zaki and Ochsner (2012) and other authors have pointed out,empathy is a multidimensional concept. It implies orienting toward others’ needs and experiencing personal distress when observing others in pain."
Attention, Perception and Memory: An Integrated Introduction
A. Styles Elizabeth
"The most general meaning of the term perception is sensory processing. The sense organs transduce physical energy from the outside world, which is encoded and delivered to the brain via sensory neurons for interpretation by the perceptual system"

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Attention, Perception and Memory: An Integrated Introduction
A. Styles Elizabeth
"The most general meaning of the term perception is sensory processing. The sense organs transduce physical energy from the outside world, which is encoded and delivered to the brain via sensory neurons for interpretation by the perceptual system"
Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
Stephanie Cacioppo
"Building healthy relationships also builds a healthier brain, one that—as we will discover—can stave off cognitive decline, spur creativity, and speed up our thinking"

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Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
Stephanie Cacioppo
"Building healthy relationships also builds a healthier brain, one that—as we will discover—can stave off cognitive decline, spur creativity, and speed up our thinking"
Designing for Emotion Book
Aarron Walter
"We are accidental narcissists seeking that which we know best ourselves. We don’t have to see two eyes and a mouth to feel an emotional connection to a design. Sometimes we perceive human presence through abstract things such as proportion."

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Designing for Emotion Book
Aarron Walter
"We are accidental narcissists seeking that which we know best ourselves. We don’t have to see two eyes and a mouth to feel an emotional connection to a design. Sometimes we perceive human presence through abstract things such as proportion."
Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People
Christopher Noessel
"Most technologies focus on the moment of use. Even the tools you use to embody users, i.e., personas, are typically tied to an age, a small moment in time.But since agents handle things for their users over the long haul, agentive technology encourages you to think about the scenarios that make up a whole life."

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Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People
Christopher Noessel
"Most technologies focus on the moment of use. Even the tools you use to embody users, i.e., personas, are typically tied to an age, a small moment in time.But since agents handle things for their users over the long haul, agentive technology encourages you to think about the scenarios that make up a whole life."
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
"So, what’s happening in your brain when you categorize? You are not finding similarities in the world but creating them. When your brain needs a concept, it constructs one on the fly, mixing and matching from a population of instances from your past experience, to best fit your goals in a particular situation"

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
"So, what’s happening in your brain when you categorize? You are not finding similarities in the world but creating them. When your brain needs a concept, it constructs one on the fly, mixing and matching from a population of instances from your past experience, to best fit your goals in a particular situation"
Practical Natural Language Processing
Sowmya Vajjala, Bodhisattwa Majumder, Anuj Gupta, Harshit Surana
"Transfer learning is a technique where a pre-trained model is used as the starting point for training a new model. The pre-trained model is trained on a large dataset and has learned general patterns and features that can be useful for other related tasks"

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Practical Natural Language Processing
Sowmya Vajjala, Bodhisattwa Majumder, Anuj Gupta, Harshit Surana
"Transfer learning is a technique where a pre-trained model is used as the starting point for training a new model. The pre-trained model is trained on a large dataset and has learned general patterns and features that can be useful for other related tasks"
Emotional Design
Don Norman
"Attractive things make people feel good, which in turn makes them think more creatively. How does that make something easier to use? Simple, by making it easier for people to find solutions to the problems they encounter. Happy people are more effective in finding alternative solutions and, as a result, are tolerant of minor difficulties."

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Emotional Design
Don Norman
"Attractive things make people feel good, which in turn makes them think more creatively. How does that make something easier to use? Simple, by making it easier for people to find solutions to the problems they encounter. Happy people are more effective in finding alternative solutions and, as a result, are tolerant of minor difficulties."
A Meaning Processing Approach to Cognition: What Matters?
John Flach , Fred Voorhorst
"The interface design problem has been conventionally framed as an ‘interpretation’ process, and the focus of attention has been to explore the relations between the ‘signs’ on the interface (e.g., the knobs and dials, and graphical icons) and the ‘internal models’ in the heads of the intended users"

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A Meaning Processing Approach to Cognition: What Matters?
John Flach , Fred Voorhorst
"The interface design problem has been conventionally framed as an ‘interpretation’ process, and the focus of attention has been to explore the relations between the ‘signs’ on the interface (e.g., the knobs and dials, and graphical icons) and the ‘internal models’ in the heads of the intended users"
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Christopher Noessel, Nathan Shedroff
"Industrial-age users experienced direct, mechanical feedback in the interfaces they used.For instance, if they pushed a lever forward, the machine would translate that to mechanical motion elsewhere."

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Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Christopher Noessel, Nathan Shedroff
"Industrial-age users experienced direct, mechanical feedback in the interfaces they used.For instance, if they pushed a lever forward, the machine would translate that to mechanical motion elsewhere."
Conversational Design
Erika Hall
"Conversational principles are nothing without a unifying personality—the animating spirit. A distinctive, appropriate, consistent personality brings the principle of conversational design to life. - The more sophisticated the interaction you can have with a system, the more personality plays a part."

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Conversational Design
Erika Hall
"Conversational principles are nothing without a unifying personality—the animating spirit. A distinctive, appropriate, consistent personality brings the principle of conversational design to life. - The more sophisticated the interaction you can have with a system, the more personality plays a part."