Keeping It Too Simple: How the Reductive Tendency Affects Cognitive Engineering

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 90-94

  Feltovich, Paul J ^a   Hoffman, Robert R ^a   Woods, David ^b   Roesler, Axel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY THEORY; INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES; MULTIPLE CONTEXT-DEPENDENCIES; REDUCTIVE TENDENCIES;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANEUVERABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042641160     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2004.14     Document Type: Note

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