Making TRACS: The Diagrammatic Design of a Double-Sided Deck

TRACS: Tool for Research on Adaptive Cognitive Strategies, is a new family of card games played with a special deck. Each card in the deck is a double-sided diagram, where the back gives a clue to the front. Compared to standard card games, this clue/truth structure makes TRACS more tractable to theoretical investigations in the lab and more typical of practical situations in the world. Here I present the design of the deck and discuss some research results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DIAGRAMS
• Authors: Kevin Burns
• Keywords: Adaptive Cognitive Strategies, Artificial Intelligence, Card Games, DIAGRAMS 2004, Structure Makes Tracs