We describe a framework for decision making, called the Recognition/Metacognition (R/M) model, that explains how decision makers handle uncertainty and novelty while at the same time exploiting their experience in real-world domains. The model describes a set of critical thinking strategies that supplement recognitional processes by verifying their results and correcting problems. Structured si...

Medical image interpretation is a difficult problem for which human interpreters, radiologists in this case, are normally better equipped than computers. However, there are many clinical situations where radiologist’s performance is suboptimal, yielding a need for exploitation of computer-based interpretation for assistance. A typical example of such a problem is the interpretation of mammogram...

Scientific writing can be hard for novice writers, even in their own language. We present a system that applies Argumentative Zoning (AZ) (Teufel & Moens 2002), a method of determining argumentative structure in texts, to the task of advising novice writers on their writing. We address this task by automatically determining the rhetorical/argumentative status and the implicit author stance of a...

Processes and process modelling have proven themselves as a useful technique for capturing the work practice in business. We focus on their usage in the domain of healthcare and define two main types of processes in medicine – medical guidelines and organizational processes. Based on these types we present the architecture of a multi-agent system that is able to work with them and describe appl...

A critiquing system evaluating a physician's management plan may produce a set of individual comments that, taken together, appear repetitious or incoherent. This paper presents TraumaGEN, a system for integrating sets of possibly interrelated communicative goals into one or more coherent messages. TraumaGEN takes account of the purpose of the messages, the situation in which the messages will ...

We introduce a formal model of inconsistency-related mode confusion. This forms the basis of a heuristic methodology for critiquing user interfaces, using a matrix algebra approach to interface specification [12]. We also present a novel algorithm for automatically identifying modes in state-based interface designs, allowing a significant level of automated tool support for our methodology. The...

Objective: To discuss and provide insights on how to critique the psychometric properties of measurement instruments used by nurses nurse researchers. Design data sources: Methodological discussion paper that is based our own experiences research supported literature. Primary argument: Nurses routinely use a variety during their everyday practice. They do so with assumption instrument has been ...

Karl Popper’s method of conjectures and refutationsis used as a framework to analyze and critique emerging construction theories. A perceived problem initiates the quest for tentative theories and error elimination as a solution. However, according to Popper, the result is a new version of the problem or an unintended consequence that creates anemergingproblem. The method of conjectures and ref...