Resumen de Design of Optimal Person‐Artifact Interfaces:: Contributions from Cognitive Science*
Arthur C. Graesser, Sallie Gordon, Chris Forsythe, James Greer
The field of cognitive science has contributed to the design of person‐artifact interfaces in several major ways. Cognitive scientists have accumulated laws of human performance and cognition which can be applied to particular interface designs. They have investigated how knowledge is represented in the human mind and how different types of knowledge can be extracted from individuals by analysing verbal protocols. Cognitive scientists have written computer programs that simulate cognitive mechanisms in a variety of tasks, such as problem solving, learning, and the use of text editors. We present an example computer system (called HANDY) which illustrates how these contributions from cognitive science can be used to improve the design of an interface on a video recorder (VCR). HANDY simulates the amount of time it takes for individuals to perform tasks on VCRs with different interfaces.
