SymSys245 Concepts CheckList

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1	Domain	/Topic	s	Additional Resources	Final Paper

2	Laws of Cognitive Engineering	Everyone is smarter than you think	Improvisation: novel (unpredicted) uses	SymSys 245: Interaction Analysis Glossary:
3		Everyone is stupider than you think	Because of improvisation, unexpected failure modes happen	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nC1H0C4YDP9MyOLM9BT4qLYZtfWZ_txfFzy9BJs0_fs
4		No one can read instructions	Interpretation is complex so creating good Instructions is hard
5		Practice makes better	"power law" of practice -- strategy change + memory	SymSys245 Explainer GPT (at the moment you need a ChatGPT Plus account):
6		Fundamental Law of Design	Get the user the right interpretation right away	https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Y2PvZVzpf-symsys245-explainer
7				You can write a sentence if you like, but it's expecting something like:
8				domain/topic (additional detail)
9	Problem Solving (definition)	Goals	Desired outcomes; There is usaully a "main (current) goal" that the problem-solver will report in a protocol.	for example:
10		Subgoals/The goal tree	Subgoals are intermediate objectives to accomplish a "higher level" goal	Skill Acquisition/Strategy change (esp. early in practice)
11		Impasses	Impasse-driven subgoaling, learning	General cognition/Point of view illusion (Just because you can see the cars, doesn't mean the cars can see you!)
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13	Problem solving resources	Operators	Affordances (things that suggest operators) & Demandances (things that force operators, like a fire alarm)	Acknowledgements: Michelle Fox and others provided feedback and additional notes.
14		Methods/Strategies
15		Time and Attention
16		Constraints	Limitations that can't be easily violated (time and attention are kinds of constraints)
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18	Types of problem solving	Opportunistic problem solving
19		Heuristic problem solving
20		Search	(not the google kind; the CogSci kind!)
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23	Interpretation [Making Meaning]	Text	e.g., Reading, signs (discourse)
24		Graphics (visual elements)	e.g., Signs
25		Actions	e.g,. Body language, movement prediction
26		Discourse	Social version of text interpretation
27		Social Action	Social version of action interpretation
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29	Cognitive Operators	Passive memory	General remembering, priming
30	(operators that are in your head)	Intentional memory	e.g., Repeating to yourself, self-priming
31		Attentional spotlights	External visual attention
32		Mental imagery	Internal visual attention
33		Skilled execution	"Automatized" procedures
34		Execution errors	Usually getting lost in a procedure
35		Explicit thinking	Reasoning, Planning, Explanation, etc.
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37	Skill Acquisition	Explicit repetition	Often involves memory
38	(practice effects)	Strategy change	Esp. early in practice, often social (e.g., team workflow)
39		Impasse-driven learning
40		"power law" of practice	not necessarily a power law -- any improvement with practice
41		positive & negative transfer	e.g., interference (negative); similar elements (positive)
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43	Primary analytic methods	Introspection
44		Post hoc report
45		In stream verbal report	e.g., Art Benjamin, Mystery Machine experiment, etc.
46		Microgenetic analysis	How the activity changes when repeated multiple times
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48	Secondary analytic methods	True experiments
49		Focus groups
50		Surveys
51		A/B testing
52		User studies
53		Coaching studies	and other multi-agent interaction analysis
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55	Exploratory Learning ("8 E"s)	Exploration	Mental model learning (aka. figuring things out)
56	(Applied opportunistically)	Evidence
57		Explanation	(see in thinking & reasoning)
58		Evolution (change in theory)
59		Experiment
60		Expectation
61		Evaluation
62		Exercise
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64	The interpretive process	View Application
65	(all approx. the same thing!)	The interpretive process
66		Explanation
67		Conceptual Blending
68		Conceptual Combination
69		Framing
70		Script Application
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72	Complex Thinking and Reasoning	Planning
73	(applications of cognitive operators)	Explanation	Creating a "mental model" (explanatory structure)
74		Inference	Deduction and induction
75		Explicit strategy change
76		Decision making among options
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78	General cognition	Hot v. cold cognition	You can turn cold to hot by increasing cost of failure or reducing available time.
79		Point of view illusion	Just because you can see the cars, doesn't mean the cars can see you!
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81	Sources of cognitive variability	Experience
82		Motivation
83		State	sleepiness, caffeine, etc.
84		Culture	community of interpretive practice (that one is born or comes into)
85		Developmental Age	eps. very young (<5y.o.) or Very old (per normal age-related memory issues)
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