Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology

A.F. Blackwell; C. Britton; A. Cox; T. Green; C. Gurr; G. Kadoda; M. Kutar; M.J. Loomes; C.L. Nehaniv; M. Petre; C. Roast; C. Roe; A. Wong; R.M. Young

doi:10.1007/3-540-44617-6_31

Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology

A.F. Blackwell, C. Britton, A. Cox, T. Green, C. Gurr, G. Kadoda, M. Kutar, M.J. Loomes, C.L. Nehaniv, M. Petre, C. Roast, C. Roe, A. Wong, R.M. Young

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The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework has been created to assist the designers of notational systems and information artifacts to evaluate their designs with respect to the impact that they will have on the users of those designs. The framework emphasizes the design choices available to such designers, including characterization of the user’s activity, and the inevitable tradeoffs that will occur between potential design options. The resulting framework has been under development for over 10 years, and now has an active community of researchers devoted to it. This paper first introduces Cognitive Dimensions. It then summarizes the current activity, especially the results of a one-day workshop devoted to Cognitive Dimensions in December 2000, and reviews the ways in which it applies to the field of Cognitive Technology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	325-341
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Volume	2117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44617-6_31
Publication status	Published - 2001

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