DaveX comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 7 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaveX 30 January 2011 06:22:26AM 1 point [-]

I think I saw a demo, or video a demo, about 15 years ago, of the ERICA gaze-tracking program at UVA where onlookers could see the screen change characters while the person whose gaze was being tracked couldn't see the changes. If I remember correctly, it was a screen of normal text in MS-Word or something that would mutate into gibberish where the user wasn't watching.

Comment author: TobyBartels 30 January 2011 07:45:39AM 0 points [-]

OK, then somebody else remembers it! (I don't remember that it was text, but this is close enough.)

Comment author: Sniffnoy 30 January 2011 08:01:55AM 0 points [-]

Oh, OK, I misunderstood what you were saying. That's not change blindness, then, that's just not being able to see things you're not looking at...

Comment author: TobyBartels 30 January 2011 03:28:54PM *  2 points [-]

But which you think that you're looking at, so that at the end you're surprised by the change. The change-blindness stuff in Dennett's video that I cited 4 posts up had the same result, although a different method. (Whether that similarity is enough to make DaveX's stuff also count as "change blindness", I have no opinion.)