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Resolving the Paradox of the Active User: Stable Suboptimal Performance in Interactive Tasks
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Fu, Wai-Tat; Gray, Wayne D. – Cognitive Science, 2004
This paper brings the intellectual tools of cognitive science to bear on resolving the ''paradox of the active user'' ["Interfacing Thought: Cognitive Aspects of Human--Computer Interaction," Cambridge, MIT Press, MA, USA]--the persistent use of inefficient procedures in interactive tasks by experienced or even expert users when demonstrably more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computers, Users (Information), Interaction
Soft Constraints in Interactive Behavior: The Case of Ignoring Perfect Knowledge in-the-World for Imperfect Knowledge in-the-Head
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Gray, Wayne D.; Fu, Wai-Tat – Cognitive Science, 2004
Constraints and dependencies among the elements of embodied cognition form patterns or microstrategies of interactive behavior. Hard constraints determine which microstrategies are possible. Soft constraints determine which of the possible microstrategies are most likely to be selected. When selection is non-deliberate or automatic the least…
Descriptors: Behavior, Memory, Perception, Psychomotor Skills