Computers, Communication And Mental Models

Computers, Commmunication, and Mental Models is a far-ranging, focused treatment of the cognitive and behavioural issues in computer-mediated communication, knowledge representation and computer-supported co- operative work. It is also an argued development of the theoretical bases for treating computerized tools as intermediaries in the communication of mental maps between tool builders and users.Empirical trails are reported in detail sufficient for representation, in computer-based instruction, fractal dimensions of cognitive mapping and group decision support. The book is a collection of multidisciplinary papers which each shed light on the complex interactions between users and systems architects, via a common medium: computerized tools.

About the Editors

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(1)

Preface: Computerised tools as intermediaries in the communication of mental maps

vii

Part 1: The Communication Process

11

(26)

1. Human-computer-human interaction: how computers affect interpersonal communication

11

(4)

Rodney Fuller

2. Designing for cognitive communication: epistemic fidelity or mediating collaborative inquiry?

15

(13)

Jeremy Roschelle

3. Computer-mediated interpersonal communication: the HCHI approach

28

(9)

Lajos Balint

Part 2: Knowledge Representation

37

(20)

4. Mapping the mapper

37

(8)

John Wood

Paul Taylor

5. Mapping spatial cognition with computers

45

(12)

Phil Moose

Teri Stueland

Krista Kern

Tom Gentry

Part 3: Cooperative Work

57

(31)

6. The world view of collaborative tools

57

(10)

Munir Mandviwalla

7. Computer-based simulation models for problem-solving: communicating problem understandings

67

(7)

Ray Paul

Peter Thomas

8. The effects of combining interactive graphics and text in computer-mediated small group decision-making

74

(14)

Jozsef Toth

Postscript: A convergence of disciplines

88

(1)

Index

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Computers, Communication And Mental Models

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