Computers, Communication and Mental Models

List of contents

About the Editors -- Preface: Computerised tools as intermediaries in the communication of mental maps -- Part 1: The Communication Process -- 1. Human-computer-human interaction: how computers affect interpersonal communication /Rodney Fuller -- 2. Designing for cognitive communication: epistemic fidelity or mediating collaborative inquiry? /Jeremy Roschelle -- 3. Computer-mediated interpersonal communication: the HCHI approach /Lajos Balint -- Part 2: Knowledge Representation -- 4. Mapping the mapper /John Wood and Paul Taylor -- 5. Mapping spatial cognition with computers /Phil Moose, Teri Stueland, Krista Kern and Tom Gentry -- Part 3: Cooperative Work -- 6. The world view of collaborative tools /Munir Mandviwalla -- 7. Computer-based simulation models for problem-solving: communicating problem understandings /Ray Paul and Peter Thomas -- 8. The effects of combining interactive graphics and text in computer-mediated small group decision-making /JozsefToth -- Postscript: A convergence of disciplines -- Index.

Summary

This study is a far-ranging, focused treatment of the cognitive and behavioural issues in computer-mediated communication, knowledge representation and computer-supported co-operative work.

Product details

• Authors: Donald L. Day
• Assisted by: Donald L. Day (Editor), Day Donald L. (Editor), D K Kovacs (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138413979
• ISBN: 978-1-138-41397-9
• No. of pages: 92
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; COMPUTERS / Computer Science, computer science, Information technology: general issues, Information technology: general topics