Heida Maria Sigurdardottir
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Heida Maria Sigurdardottir
@heidasigurdar.bsky.social
Cognitive (Neuro)scientist. Professor and Dean of Faculty of Psych. Uni. of Iceland. PI of the Icelandic Vision Lab (visionlab.is). I like brains and lipstick. Weird is good. Alt account: @icevislab.bsky.social
Thank you 😊 Nature did most if the work
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
😆😆😆✨️✨️✨️
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Ah no, this was just a stupid joke based on your ducking comment 🙃 And to be boring, kind is a sheep yes, but also just an old name for creature, so ókind is some kind (hah!) of uncreature. Maybe same as e.g. mankind (human creature).
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
*ducks and non-ducks* 🦆🚫🦆
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Heida Maria Sigurdardottir
I saw Confidence Man a couple of years ago at Primavera Sound in Madrid and have been kind of obsessed with them since. They played in crazy rain which got the next festival day cancelled. I also might have a slight celebrity crush on Bones 😅
youtu.be/fNOjwocNmFw?... #confidenceman #music 29/N
Confidence Man - SO WHAT (Official Video)
YouTube video by ConfidenceManVEVO
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I saw Confidence Man a couple of years ago at Primavera Sound in Madrid and have been kind of obsessed with them since. They played in crazy rain which got the next festival day cancelled. I also might have a slight celebrity crush on Bones 😅
youtu.be/fNOjwocNmFw?... #confidenceman #music 29/N
Confidence Man - SO WHAT (Official Video)
YouTube video by ConfidenceManVEVO
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Daglar found this one, maybe relevant: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The effect of background clutter on visual search in video conferencing - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
The use of video conferencing tools has become increasingly common recently. The visual displays in these tools are highly complex, being composed of multiple faces with varying image quality and lighting conditions. On top of this, users have the ability to choose their own backgrounds. Some choose simple artificial backgrounds, some appear in front of a real or simulated room, and some use something more abstract. How do these choices affect the user’s ability to use the tool, for example, finding the current speaker or a reaction symbol? Vision science can certainly provide answers to these questions; however, most search studies use simple displays with a uniform background, or more recently, real-world scenes. How does what we know about search generalize to these more complex displays? The current study sought to examine how our understanding of visual search applies to well-controlled video conferencing displays. Specifically, we investigated the effect of display clutter (i.e., background complexity and variability) on perceptual tasks relevant for video conferencing. In an eye-tracking set-up, participants searched either for the speaker whose image was highlighted (Experiment 1) or for a reaction symbol (raised-hand) embedded on one of the attendees’ background. Results showed a significant effect of background complexity and variability, suggesting that search performance declined as the display clutter increased. Image-based analysis showed that the choice of backgrounds mediated these effects, suggesting that some virtual backgrounds were not optimal for perceptual processes.
link.springer.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I vaguely remember something like this from @ecvp.bsky.social -- anyone?
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Our four (cries in middle aged no coffee after lunch)
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Reposted by Heida Maria Sigurdardottir
Mind Enterprises are just two cooler-than-thou dudes chilling with their negronis in the everlasting 80s playing italo disco. I feel like I should smoke a Capri or something.
youtu.be/TIAqyVSp-xA?... #music #mindenterprises 28/N
kitchen mix
YouTube video by Mind Enterprises
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Mind Enterprises are just two cooler-than-thou dudes chilling with their negronis in the everlasting 80s playing italo disco. I feel like I should smoke a Capri or something.
youtu.be/TIAqyVSp-xA?... #music #mindenterprises 28/N
kitchen mix
YouTube video by Mind Enterprises
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ekki málið, bara flott að það hjálpi 😊 Mun algengara en fólk heldur og gott held ég að auka meðvitund um að þetta sé sumum mjög erfitt og að þeir séu ekki að vera dónalegir.
August 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Awesome, happy to hear that :)
August 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
They had to turn from post- to premoderation apparently due to a recent surge in bullsh*t preprints. They are working through a backlog, but seem to be quite fast, one of ours was offline but appears to be online again.
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM