Designing a Training Tool for Imaging Mental Models
Abstract
The training process can be conceptualized as the student acquiring an evolutionary sequence of classification-problem-solving mental models. For example a physician learns (1) classification systems for patient symptoms, diagnostic procedures, diseases, and therapeutic interventions and (2) interrelationships among these classifications (e.g., how to use diagnostic procedures to collect data about a patient's symptoms in order to indentify the disease so that therapeutic measures can be taken. This project developed functional specifications for a computer-based tool, Mental Link, that allows the evaluative imaging of such mental models. The fundamental design approach underlying this representational medium is traversal of virtual cognitive space. Typically intangible cognitive entities and links among them are visible as a three-dimensional web that represents a knowledge structure. The tool has a high degree of flexiability and customizability to allow extension to other types of uses, such as front-end to an intelligent tutoring system, knowledge base, hypermedia system, or semantic network. Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Hypertext, Intelligent tutoring systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA229636
Entities
People
- Christopher J. Dede
- Geetha Jayaram
Organizations
- University of Houston