Inspired and informed by the work of Russ Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel in their ‘Describing Inner Experience’, we do two things in this commentary. First, we discuss the degree of reliability that introspective methods might be expected to deliver across a range of types of experience. Second, we explore the phenomenology of agency as it bears on the topic of free will. We pose a number of po...

Expertise research has produced mixed results regarding the problem of transfer of expertise. Is expert performance context-bound or can the underlying processes be applied to more general situations? The present study tests whether expert performance and its underlying processes transfer to novel tasks within a domain. A mixed method study using eye-tracking and quantitative and qualitative an...

In the last decade, Think Aloud Protocols (TAPs) have become a major instrument in process-oriented Translation Studies (TS). However, the serious questions regarding the experimental validity of this research methodology when applied to the translation process has been systematically reviewed in the literature. Theoretical justifications have been imported from psychology and related disciplin...

Experts and intermediates fundamentally differ in the ways they explain subject matter to novices. Experts provide less details but in a highly coherent format, whereas intermediates provide many additional details but in a format with low coherency. In a recent study, we found that experts’ explanations enabled novices to acquire more transferable and flexible knowledge as opposed to explanati...

Although problem solving is a highly valued skill, the processes involved are rarely taught in our undergraduate biology classes. An essential component skill of monitoring and reflection during problem solving is work checking, a process used by experts while solving problems to determine if their solution is achieving the goal. The results of work checking may reveal errors or inconsistencies...

In this talk, I will argue that the HERA experimental data show that the typical parameter (κ) responsible for the value of the shadowing corrections (SC) in DIS is so large that the BFKL Pomeron is hidden under SC. The SC turn out to be large enough but mostly for the gluon structure function which is not well determined by the available experimental data and by the current theoretical procedu...

Ontologies have been promoted and used for knowledge sharing. Several models for representing ontologies have been developed in the Knowledge Representation field, in particular associated with the Semantic Web. In my talk I will summarise developments so far, and will argue that the currently advocated approaches miss certain basic properties of current distributed information sharing infrastr...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate usability of blog reader software named BlogExpress. Five participants volunteer to participate in this think-aloud, scenario-based usability testing. After completing each scenario and after completing all five scenarios, participants also rate the interface on readability, usefulness, learnability, and visual appeal. The results show that they can comp...

Much of what ConTEXt originally provided originated from our daily needs, at that time dictated by educational consultancy and course development. However, the last couple of years most features find their origin in the demands of publishers, users as well as an occasional ”Let’s see (prove) if TEX can do it (better)”. One of those users is the Dutch Math Society (NAW). Quite a while ago the Du...

Ernest as a person In my talk I will give several examples to illustrate the most endearing characteristics of Ernest’s personality. Here I mention just one particular incidence. There was a meeting of heads of divisions of the Institute of Physiology to discuss some questions of interdepartmental organization of the Institute. This meeting coincided with one convened by the cleaners and mainte...