Comparison versus reminding

Comparison versus reminding

Comparison and reminding have both been shown to support learning and transfer. Comparison is thought to support transfer because it allows learners to disregard non-matching features of superficially different episodes in order to abstract the essential structure of concepts. Remindings promote memory for the individual episodes and generalization because they prompt learners to retrieve earli...

Remote analogical reminding.

Remote analogical reminding is hypothesized to occur when one episode is cued by another sharing similar themes but not similar object, character, or event descriptions. We report three experiments exploring this view. Subjects' remindings in Experiment 1 showed sensitivity to remote analogical similarity even though targets were encoded only briefly in an incidental learning paradigm. Experime...

“Finding and Reminding” Reconsidered

Failure-Driven Reminding for Incremental Learning

Much of adul t learn ing is gradual , almost impercept ib le. Our model for t h i s knowledge-based, incremental learning is to augment normal story comprehension processing w i th a f a i l u r e t rack ing mechanism. When a comprehension ru le f a i l s , the f a i l u r e and i t s cor rec t ion are stored in an exception episode attached to the f a i l i n g r u l e . The ru le is otherwise...

Effective Interaction Strategies for Adaptive Reminding

Introduction We discuss the problem of creating a reminder generation system that successfully alerts a user to daily tasks while adapting the features of its reminders to the user’s reminding preferences. There are many example applications in which reminding is useful; we motivate the discussion by focusing on two such applications. The first is an office environment in which users require as...