Modeling the User,s Processing Resources: Pragmatic Simplicity Meets Psychological Complexity
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چکیده
A number of methods have been proposed for reasoning about the demands that particular tasks place on a user,s limited cognitive processing resources. On the other hand, the notion of “cognitive resources” has been strongly criticized by psychologists. This paper addresses the question of whether these criticisms are applicable to user modeling. It first introduces and illustrates a framework for reasoning about resource-limited processing. It then considers the main criticisms of psychological resource theories in turn. It argues that these criticisms can be taken into account, with the help of the framework presented here, by designers of on-line user modeling systems.
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