Design of cognitive tools for everyday information-based activities

日常基于信息的活动的认知工具设计

• 批准号: 227812-2010
• 负责人: Sedig, Kamran
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=570323
• 关键词: Design; cognitive; tools; everyday; information

We live in a knowledge society. We are heavily dependent on information in many spheres of our activities. Most of our everyday activities involve both the mind and information. We are awash in a tsunami of information. Simultaneously, we are expected to carry out our activities more efficiently than ever before. To cope, we need tools. Cognitive tools (CTs) can help. These software tools sit at the interface between our mind and a digital information space and mediate the interaction between the two. Examples of CTs include interactive mathematical visualization software, decision-support systems, and digital libraries. Researchers need to know how to design CTs so that these tools can effectively mediate our information-based activities. Currently, researchers do not have enough knowledge about how to design the human-information interaction component of CTs to support a variety of knowledge-oriented activities. In order to have scientific knowledge in this area, researchers need to develop design frameworks, build different kinds of tools for different activities, and conduct empirical studies to assess the effectiveness of different design strategies. My research proposal is to do the aforementioned research with regard to three kinds of cognitive tools: digital libraries, digital games, and tools for exploration of mathematical ideas. This research can significantly contribute to our understanding of how to design CTs. Well-designed CTs can transform and scale our knowledge-oriented productive activities, not unlike the revolutionary effect that physical tools and machinery have had on our material productive activities. As Internet-based CTs improve, these tools can virtually affect the knowledge activities of tens of millions of people throughout the world. In short, this research has wide-reaching applications in the support of our everyday information-based activities.

我们生活在一个知识社会。我们在许多活动领域都严重依赖信息。我们大多数的日常活动都涉及到思想和信息。我们被信息的海啸所淹没。与此同时，人们期望我们比以往任何时候都更有效地开展活动。为了科普，我们需要工具。认知工具（CTs）可以提供帮助。这些软件工具位于我们的大脑和数字信息空间之间的界面，并调解两者之间的互动。CT的例子包括交互式数学可视化软件，决策支持系统和数字图书馆。 研究人员需要知道如何设计CT，使这些工具可以有效地调解我们的信息为基础的活动。目前，研究人员没有足够的知识，如何设计的人与信息的交互组件的计算机技术，以支持各种知识为导向的活动。为了在这一领域有科学的知识，研究人员需要开发设计框架，建立不同类型的工具，为不同的活动，并进行实证研究，以评估不同的设计策略的有效性。我的研究计划是就三种认知工具：数字图书馆、数字游戏和数学思想探索工具进行上述研究。 这项研究可以显着有助于我们了解如何设计CT。精心设计的CT可以改变和扩大我们以知识为导向的生产活动，这与物理工具和机械对我们的物质生产活动产生的革命性影响没有什么不同。随着基于互联网的计算机技术的改进，这些工具实际上可以影响全世界数千万人的知识活动。简而言之，这项研究在支持我们的日常信息活动方面具有广泛的应用。