Current personal information management (PIM) tools do not sufficiently recognize the spatio-temporal, hierarchical, or conceptual relations of tasks that constitute our plans. Using behavioral observation methods we analyzed people planning a trip to attend a conference taking place in a region they had little or no prior familiarity with. The resulting open-ended records were coded into highe...

Cognitive complexity measures quantify human difficulty in understanding the source code based on cognitive informatics foundation. The discipline derives cognitive complexity on a basis of fundamental software factors i.e, inputs, outputs, and internal processing architecture. An approach to integrating Granular Computing into the new measure called Structured Cognitive Information Measure or ...

There is a growing awareness amongst conceptual modellers that their tools (languages and methodologies) are in need of theoretical elucidation and foundation. used in a more or less intuitive und unreflected way. Furthermore, the design and maintenance of large scale information systems presupposes well-understood and reusable top-level ontologies. The tutorial is intended for researchers inte...

background: secondhand smoke (shs) exposure has been reported to cause a number of adverse health effects. although studies have been conducted to identify the link between shs exposure and cognitive functioning of children, its relationship is still unclear. this study aimed to identify the association of prenatal and postnatal shs exposure with cognitive ability among adolescents. methods: a ...

This study explores the utilization of information accidentally accessible in the environment when solving a problem. It contrasts the spontaneous use with the prompted use of such information, i.e. it investigates the relationship between the degree of a priori confidence in the relevance of the information and its efficient use. Three degrees are considered close pragmatic distance (explicit ...

The cognitive dimensions framework is a conceptual framework aimed at characterising features of interactive systems that are strongly influen­ tial upon their effective use. As such the framework facilitates the critical as­ sessment and design of a wide variety of information artifacts. Although the framework has proved to be of considerable interest to researchers an...

Primary school selection is actually a decision making problem that should be supported with several source of information. Parents usually handle this problem in an unstructured manner which is indeed a fuzzy mental ranking of schools with respect to the effectiveness. In this study, an analytical hybrid multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) model is proposed and explained with details for ...

This paper explores the use of cognitive mapping for eliciting users' sensemaking during information system (IS) appropriation. Despite the potential usefulness of sensemaking, few studies in IS research use it as a theoretical lens to address IS appropriation. A possible reason for this may be that sensemaking does not easily lend itself to be used in practice. We introduce cognitive mapping a...

This paper proposes a brain-inspired cognitive architecture that incorporates approximations to the concepts of consciousness, emotion, and imagination. To emulate the empirically established cognitive efficacy of conscious as opposed to unconscious information processing in the mammalian brain, the architecture adopts a model of information flow from global workspace theory. Cognitive function...