Design Cognition

Scenarios and Design Cognition

Scenarios of human activity are widely used in many facets of the design of software systems. This methodological development can be understood in terms of design cognition: Scenarios support and enhance the solution-first strategy, which typical of, and perhaps fundamental to expert problem-solving for “ill-defined” problems like design and planning.

DESIGN COGNITION FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Doctoral Dissertation

Cognition, Situatedness, and Situated Design

In the rationalistic perspective, the human expert is seen as a data-processing system having properties similar to computers. As a consequence, the design of man-machine interfaces, workplaces, and organizational procedures has been mainly driven by technological advances, focusing on replacing humans rather than supporting their actual needs. A more appropriate explanation of human cognition ...

Diagrammatic Cognition: Discovery and Design

External representations of thought—maps, diagrams, sketches, and the like—are ancient inventions that serve thought and communication in numerous ways. A number of cognitive scientists have investigated roles these representations play in cognition (see, e.g., Donald, 1991; Larkin & Simon, 1987; Norman, 1993; Schön, 1983). They are created and used by school students, by architects and designe...

Embodied Cognition and Learning Environment Design

content and the comprehension of learned concepts. Based on this body of research, Segal, Black, and Tversky (2010) showed that gestural interfaces that incorporate the haptic aspect of touching the interface and manipulating the objects by using sensori-motor input could benefit users‟ comprehension of learned concepts. They hypothesized that by touching the objects on a screen directly with a...