ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
IEEE-ACM
Parallel programs are difficult to write, test, and debug. This thesis explores how programmers build mental models about parallel programs, and demonstrates, through user evaluat...
EDM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
This paper presents several methods to automatically detecting students' mental models in MetaTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that teaches students self-regulatory proce...
TVCG
2010
2010
Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective
13 years 2 months ago
—Although previous research has suggested that examining the interplay between internal and external representations can benefit our understanding of the role of information vis...
IWC
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Being disorientated or lost is one of the fundamental dif
COGSCI
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Four experiments examined the strategies that individuals develop in sentential reasoning. They led to the discovery of five different strategies. According to the theory proposed...
JAIR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper presents Networks of Influence Diagrams (NID), a compact, natural and highly expressive language for reasoning about agents' beliefs and decision-making processes....
ICIS
2001
13 years 5 months ago
2001
Despite substantial improvements in the last few years in software engineering and collaboration tools, coordination in large-scale software development continues to be problemati...
BNCOD
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
A student with a Computing Science degree is expected to have reached a reasonable level of expertise in SQL. SQL is a non-trivial skill to master and is taught with different degr...
CHI
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1996
ACM
We present a new systematic method of structuring information using mental models. This method can be used both to evaluate the efficiency of an information structure and to build...
FC
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
Improved computer security requires improvements in risk communication to naive end users. Efficacy of risk communication depends not only on the nature of the risk, but also on t...