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Modeling the user's processing resources: Pragmatic simplicity meets psychological complexity
Autor: Jameson, AnthonyHerausgeber:
A number of methods have been proposed for reasoning
about the demands that particular tasks place on a user's limited
cognitive processing resources. On the other hand, the notion of
"cognitive resources" has been strongly criticized by
psychologists. This paper addresses the question of whether these
criticisms are applicable to user modeling. It first introduces
and illustrates a framework for reasoning about resource-limited
processing. It then considers the main criticisms of
psychological resource theories in turn. It argues that these
criticisms can be taken into account, with the help of the
framework presented here, by designers of on-line user modeling
systems.
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