Blink

Career Episode # 3 CE 3: Head Mounted Mouse & Keyboard for the Physically Disabled CE 3.1 Introduction This project was performed as a semester project during my Bachelors of Electronics and Communications Engineering at VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BANGALORE, INDIA. I performed this project with two other group mates, however, I was the project lead as it was originally my idea and my fellows agreed I was fit to take charge. We did indeed need external help from time to time, for which

We have been taught to stop and carefully consider all the options/factors involved before making an important decision. But in Blink, Malcolm Gladwell finds that in complex situations, our initial two-second judgments, our blink moments, are often more accurate than judgments derived from lengthy, painstaking analysis. Although Gladwell is careful to explore situations where two-second judgments fail, the most interesting scenarios are where rapid cognition succeeds. It contradicts reason to think

It also explains the good and bad side of "thin-slicing." (AKA snap judgements) In the book it says, "...to convince you that our snap judgements and first impression can be educated and controlled." (Gladwell Pg. 15) In chapter three of the book, Blink, it reflects on how snap judgements tie in with stereotypes. It says in the book, "We make connection much more quickly between pairs of ideas that are already related in our minds..." (Gladwell Pg. 77) The chapter starts off with exemplification when

Design Proposal Report for Fatigue Monitoring System (FMS) By Alvin Kuan, Sarah Fink, Shian Su and Suliman Altaleb 1. Abstract This paper presents some background briefing, implantation, ethical responsibility, and action plan of FMS design plan. FMS is a model purposely designed to detect and measure fatigue variables, i.e., blinking rate, yawning rate and head tilt for fatigue predictions. In addition, FMS will establish a crude estimate of fatigue and warns the user if a threshold has been

Can anyone really make a truly logical and well thought out decision? In the discussions about decision making, it is controversial whether taking time to make a well thought out decision is worth the extra effort or is it just a waste of time. Our brains give us the ability to think unconsciously, which prohibits us from having the ability to make logical, well-thought out decisions, especially in a short period of time. Some people believe that in a long period of time logical and well-thought

of us thought about how those task force teams could deal with the “hot” situations they encounter while doing their jobs? How can they make decisions that quickly so as to survive in those circumstances? According to Malcom Gladwell, the author of Blink, human beings have an ability to make unconsciously quick decisions, which is called thin-slicing, in every split second. Gladwell’s concept of "thin-slicing" is defined as the ability of our brain to pick out key patterns within a limited amount

In Blink by Malcolm Gladwell presents and creates very fascinating terminologies to describe split-Second processes that human mind undergoes to make important decisions. One of the term that he uses in Blink is “thin slicing”. Malcolm Gladwell defines this term as “the ability of our conscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slice of experince”(23). What this means is your brain is able to “subconsciously gathers the necessary information for sophisticated Judgments”(23)

I confess—I initially thought In the Blink of an Eye was going to be a pretentious, drawn-out book about the technical side of editing. A great sense of dread flooded my body when I looked at the amount of pages I had to read. It is not the thickest book I have ever read, but I guessed the subject matter would make reading it a long process. Fortunately, I was wrong--and I actually enjoyed reading this book. Murch did speak on some of the technical aspects of editing, however; he focused on the

structure of the book Blink is broken down into six chapters plus an introduction and a conclusion. Each section begins with an introduction story that introduces the theme of that particular section, then there are vignettes that further explain the theme or provide some research to the topic being discussed. Throughout the book they will reference a research story from an earlier part of the book as an example to a new topic being discussed. The most repeated topic discussed in Blink was thin-slicing

As human beings, we are constructed with human emotions and mental capacity such as the unconscious and conscious state of being that facilitate our actions and decision, but can we control our mind or is it an inevitable action and thought? In Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, he elaborates that it’s possible to discipline and restraint our unconscious and conscious. This book helps illustrate the complexity and serene our human minds and self-judgement that we conspire