Procedural pain is an important aspect of care in pediatrics, and particularly in pediatric oncology where children often consider this to be the most painful experience during their illness. Best recommended practice to control procedural pain includes both sedative-analgesic administration and non-pharmacological treatments, practiced in an adequate and pleasant setting by skilled staff. A na...

Conceptualizing procedural knowledge is one of the most challenging tasks of building systems for intelligent tutoring. We present a novel algorithm that enables teachers to accomplish this task (semi)automatically. Furthermore, it is desired to adapt the level of conceptualization to the skill level of particular students. We argue that our algorithm facilitates such adaptation in a straightfo...

Cognitive procedural learning is characterised by three phases, each involving distinct processes. Considering the implication of episodic memory in the first cognitive stage, the impairment of this memory system might be responsible for a slowing down of the cognitive procedural learning dynamics in the course of ageing. Performances of massed cognitive procedural learning were evaluated in ol...

OBJECTIVE Developmental dyslexia is presumed to arise from specific phonological impairments. However, an emerging theoretical framework suggests that phonological impairments may be symptoms stemming from an underlying dysfunction of procedural learning. METHOD We tested procedural learning in adults with dyslexia (n = 15) and matched-controls (n = 15) using 2 versions of the weather predict...

Design problems manifest themselves in many ways. Before anything resembling a true “science of design” can emerge, tools for classifying the design task must be developed. One such tool involves the task complexity construct, which comes in three distinct forms: objective complexity, problem space complexity and lack of structure. These forms, which can appear individually or in combination, e...

Complexity is crucial to characterize tasks performed by humans through computer systems. Yet, the theory and practice of crowdsourcing currently lacks a clear understanding of task complexity, hindering the design of effective and efficient execution interfaces or fair monetary rewards. To understand how complexity is perceived and distributed over crowdsourcing tasks, we instrumented an exper...

This paper examines procedural modeling as a tool for 3D modeling creation. Procedural modeling historically has been used for 3D visualization of natural features, but with the release of the software CityEngine in 2008, the technology can easily be adopted also in problem domains dealing with urban environments. Then, we will examine and compare two types of modeling, traditional and proc...

Considerable interest in the hypothesis that different cognitive tasks recruit qualitatively distinct processing systems has led to the proposal of separate explicit (declarative) and implicit (procedural) systems. A popular probabilistic category learning task known as the weather prediction task is said to be ideally suited to examine this distinction because its two versions, "observation" a...