Exploration And Learning In Interactive Systems

所有专业水平的用户都喜欢通过探索来学习软件工具。然而，我们对用户如何探索系统，以及探索如何带来有效学习的了解仍然有限。在这项工作中，研究是在探索中学习，着眼于通过重复执行类似任务所节省的时间来衡量导致保持的因素，以及旨在促进不同探索模式的不同任务指导。对探索过程中的认知过程的理论模型进行了扩展，以解释不同的探索模式，并模拟了各种类型的探索如果是为了保持而产生的后果。结果将被纳入软件设计方法，使用认知演练方法寻找可以通过探索有效掌握的工具。

Users at all levels of expertise prefer to learn software tools by exploration. However, our knowledge of how users explore system, and how exploration can lead to effective learning, remains limited. In this work studies are made of learning by exploration looking at factors that lead to retention as measured by the time saved in performing similar tasks repeatedly and for different task instructions intended to promote different modes of exploration. A theoretical model of the cognitive processes involved in exploration is extended to account for the differing patterns of explorations and to model the consequences if the various kinds if exploration for retention,. The results will be incorporated into a software design methodology using the cognitive walkthrough approach for tools that can be effectivelymastered through exploration.