This work is part of a syndetic approach to the evaluation of the usability of interaction devices that takes into account the cognitive resources needed to use a device to perform particular tasks. In the syndetic approach both a cognitive model and a model of system behaviour are speci ed and brought together within a single framework in order to investigate their relations. The ICS model is ...

This position paper argues the case for the application of constructivist theories to Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on Piaget’s theory. The idea of building an artificial baby is an old one in Artificial Intelligence, yet it is difficult to execute because little is known about the information processing mechanisms which babies use to learn. That which is known comes from no...

Widely regarded as one of the most promising emerging technologies for driving the future development of wireless communications, cognitive radio has the potential to mitigate the problem of increasing radio spectrum scarcity through dynamic spectrum allocation. Drawing on fundamental elements of information theory, network theory, propagation, optimization, and signal processing, a team of lea...

The "magical" number of 4 has been demonstrated to limit much of human information processing. The relevant evidence is briefly reviewed. It is proposed that the organization of processing structures is based on interconnected bidirectional pairs, with every element paired with every other one. The limit arises because of the large increase in links among elements required beyond structures of ...

A theorelic model of group member decision satisfaction based on a cognitive-motivational view of informationprocessing in inferential contexts is presented. Unlike normative-rational theorists, we acknowledge that information-processing is biased bythe decision-maker's motivations which are assumed to derive from situationspecific goals. Information processing is assumed to be more extensive w...

at the beginning of the present century, problems such as education of mentally retarded children, classification and placement of job applicants in industrial and military organizations, and students selection, gave impetus to the development of intelligence tests and the formulation of theories of intelligence. for many years factorial theories of intelligence dominated the field, but piaget&...

Biomolecular systems that can process information are sought for computational applications, because of their potential for parallelism and miniaturization and because their biocompatibility also makes them suitable for future biomedical applications. DNA has been used to design machines, motors, finite automata, logic gates, reaction networks and logic programs, amongst many other structures a...

Computational explanations focus on information processing tasks of specific cognitive capacities. In this paper, we argue that there are at least two different kinds of computational explanations; the interlevel and the intralevel ones. Moreover, it will be argued that neither interlevel nor intralevel computational explanations can be subsumed under the banner of standard mechanistic explanat...

Research has not resolved whether depression is associated with a distinct information-processing bias, whether the content of the information-processing bias in depression is specific to themes of loss and sadness, or whether biases are consistent across the tasks most commonly used to assess attention and memory processing. In the present study, participants diagnosed with major depression, s...

Semiotic Cognitive Information Processing (SCIP) is inspired by information systems theory and grounded in (natural/artificial) system-environment situations. SCIP systems’ knowledge-based natural language processing (NLP) of information makes it cognitive, their sign and symbol generation, manipulation, and understanding capabilities render it semiotic. Based upon structures whose representati...