Based on a sample of eighteen OPAC users of British Council Library, Kolkata, this study has investigated how the participants have interacted during the execution of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) search, whether they were satisfied or dissatisfied or confused. While implementing the verbal protocol method this study has developed a scheme of coding with the help of which the protocol d...

The study examined whether concurrent and retrospective verbal protocols possess the potential to provide a non-reactive and valid account of the cognitive processes involved in fault diagnosis. With this goal in mind, a group of subjects performed a fault diagnosis task under concurrent and retrospective verbalization and in a silent control condition as well. In the task, concurrent verbaliza...

Using a sample of 116 Norwegian undergraduate readers in this experimental study, we investigated whether reading informational text on tablet versus paper would lead to differences with respect strategic processing and comprehension. Strategic was measured by means verbal protocol analysis, comprehension postreading written products. Results were inconsistent the shallowing hypothesis proposin...

When Psychology emerged as a scientific discipline at of the end of the 19th century, the majority of psychologists were interested in consciousness. They sought to examine the structure and elements of their thoughts and subjective experiences through introspective analysis. Within a few decades, the introspective method was discredited, and introspective descriptions were rejected as a scient...

We are attempting to automate protocol analysis, which is a form of data analysis in psychology for inferr ing the information processes used by a human from his verbal behavior while solving a problem. The paper discusses protocol analysis as a task in a r t i f i c i a l In te l ligence. The discussion is based on (but broader than) our current program, PAS-I, which creates a description of a...

We report an experiment which seeks to determine how novice users’ conceptual understanding of graphs differs depending on the nature of the interaction with them. Undergraduate psychology students were asked to interpret three-variable “interaction” data in either bar or line graph form and were required to either think aloud while doing so or to produce written interpretations. Analysis of th...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using antecedent persuasive stimulation and response-contingent praise, within a small discussion group context, to modify the rate of verbal participation of Ss in an independent, classroom situation. Ss were 96 male college students who were divided into 12 treatment subgroups and 4 control subgroups of 6 Ss each. 3 treatment conditions were employ...

PURPOSE To compare testability of vision and eye tests in an examination protocol of 9- to 17-year-old patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to typically developing (TD) peers. METHODS In a prospective pilot study, 61 children and adolescents (34 with ASD and 27 who were TD) aged 9 to 17 years completed an eye examination protocol including tests of visual acuity, refraction, convergen...

Multi-player role-playing games form one of the key examples of interactive, emergent and collaborative storytelling systems available. These games and the collaborative stories that they create, are commonly facilitated by a specialized participant, the game master. In the current study, the verbal communication of game masters in a series of role-playing game sessions is categorized and analy...