Cognitive Cybernetics vs. Captology

Visualization, Interpretation and Cognitive Cybernetics*

Seismic interpreters face an enormous challenge to ensure that the ever increasing amounts of data does result in improved exploration success and better recovery. Seismic data contains vast amounts of information and interpreters need to analyse a number of attributes of the data simultaneously to understand the behaviour of geological systems (Henderson, et al., 2008). A high level of cogniti...

Captology: A Critical Review

This critical review of B.J. Fogg’s book Persuasive Technology regards captology as an eclectic and formative work. It summarises two other reviewers’ work and identifies several new strengths. It scrutinises Fogg’s functional triad computers functioning as tools, media and social actors and some categorical changes are recommended. It investigates further Johnson’s concerns about specific ethi...

Special Issue on Cybernetics and Cognitive Informatics

—The three greatest theories in science and engineering developed in the 1940s are cybernetics, information theory, and systems theory. Cybernetics is the science of communication and control in humans, machines, organizations, and societies across the reductive hierarchy of neural, cognitive, functional, and logical levels. A contemporary form of cybernetics, known as cognitive informatics (CI...

Cybernetics: Cybernetics and the Theory of Knowledge

Cybernetics

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