Artifact and Tool Categorization

Artifact and Artifact Categorization: Comparing Humans and Capuchin Monkeys

We aim to show that far-related primates like humans and the capuchin monkeys show interesting correspondences in terms of artifact characterization and categorization. We investigate this issue by using a philosophically-inspired definition of physical artifact which, developed for human artifacts, turns out to be applicable for cross-species comparison. In this approach an artifact is created...

Artifact Categorization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Global Implications of E-Commerce Tool and Artifact Creation

It is argued that Electronic Commerce (EC) platforms can be seen as artefacts—tools that are made, used, inherited and studied within a cultural context. This context encompasses economic, historical, technical, and social values and assumptions that are focused on particular ideas and definitions (relating to the example of B2C activities and processes contained within Electronic Grocery Syste...

Automatic Categorization Tool for Open Software Repositories

The world of Open Source software has demonstrated the remarkable appeal of communal software development. Large number of software projects can leverage, reuse, and coordinate their work through Internet and web-based technology. For example, SourceForge currently hosts about sixty thousand software systems. Similar strategies have been suggested for corporate software development, through not...

the role of dimensional distinctiveness in children's and adults' artifact categorization.

There are conflicting results as to whether preschool children categorize artifacts on the basis of physical or functional similarity. The present study investigated the effect of the relative distinctiveness of these dimensions in children's categorization. In a physical-distinctive condition, preschool children and adults were initially asked to categorize computer-animated artifacts whose ph...