Title :
Visualizing cognitive systems: getting past block diagrams
Author :
Stappers, P.J. ; Flach, John M.
Author_Institution :
Delft Univ. of Technol.
Abstract :
Visualisations play an important part in the development of ideas. They make ingredients and relations explicit, guide thinking processes of the designer or scientist, and support communications, often across the boundaries of disciplines. In the fields of cognitive psychology and human-machine interaction, block diagrams have been a dominant means for representing cognitive systems. However, we believe that this form of representation may constrain how we think about cognition in undesirable ways. This form of representation biases viewers to see cognition as a sequential, step-by-step process, under emphasizing the dynamical properties of closed-loop, adaptive processes. Block diagrams emphasize activity and internal mental operations (awareness) and occlude the ecological or work domain (situational) constraints
Keywords :
closed loop systems; cognitive systems; human computer interaction; block diagrams; closed-loop adaptive processes; cognitive psychology; cognitive systems; human-machine interaction; Airplanes; Cognition; Concrete; Design engineering; Feedback loop; Man machine systems; Process design; Psychology; Systems engineering and theory; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
The Hague
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8566-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398404