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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Mental model"”.
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Promoting mental model-building in astronomy education
… and teaching astronomy, including the use of models, have been well documented. Models, when used by teachers, are usually utilised in a transmissive way to impart content to pupils. The process of constructing mental models, an essential aspect of the development of astronomy knowledge (both …
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The mental model comparison of expert and novice performance improvement practitioners
… improvement practitioner expert and novice mental models and identify differences and similarities between these models. The secondary purpose was to analyze the potential relationships of the professional profile characteristics of performance improvement practitioners with their mental …
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High school teachers' mental model change as related to online instructional tools
The mental model shift of high school teachers regarding instructional methods related to online instructional tools was examined in this ethnographic study. The actual change in instructional techniques was also examined. Ethnographic research design was employed using teacher interviews, teacher …
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Assessment of the expert locomotive engineer's mental Model through expert-novice interactions
Today, many long-haul freight locomotives around the world are equipped with autothrottle systems that follow pre-computed and fuel-efficient speed plans. However, these systems cannot adapt to changes in operational constraints or engineers' train handling preferences, which results in engineers …
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The Impact of Mental Model in Older Adults’ Experience of Digital Games
… This paper aims to explore the impact of the mental model in older adults’ experience of digital games. The study conducted in-person interviews with participants of different ages and self-rated game experience levels. Each participant fills out their rating for each game category’s …
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Stakeholder mental model alignment influence on mid-stage performance of new product engineering teams
… mechanisms are critical in the execution. Mental models are cognitive structures used to describe system form and function and predict outcomes. The concept of shared mental models, the influence of shared mental models, and the methods of elicitation and analysis are all relatively recent …
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Examining pervasive technology practices in schools : a mental models approach
… practices are built. I employ the concept of "mental models" to study current educational technology practices. An examination of the literature revealed key elements of the prevailing mental model of technology in education, which I call the mental model of computers as information technology …
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The Effects of Multiple Leader Emergence on Team Performance
… of three distinct areas of research into one model of team effectiveness. Specifically, it was hypothesized that, in accordance with prior research findings, aspects of personality related to social intelligence would predict informal leadership emergence. Furthermore, it was predicted that …
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The representation of spatial mental models in long-term memory
… situation derived from that source (a spatial mental model). The third is to represent the perceptual characteristics of the situation from a particular perspective (a visual image). Considerable evidence exists that people construct and manipulate spatial mental models in working memory. The …
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Development of Transparency Mechanisms to shape Functional Mental Models for improved Human-Robot Interactions
… mistakes can be ascribed to the unfunctional mental model naive users have about robots. In this context, an unfunctional mental model denotes false expectations of the functionality of a robot. This thesis tackles the problem of erroneous interactions by shaping functional mental models. The …
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The Use of Expert Pilot Performance Models to Facilitate Cockpit Visual Scan Training
… I, was a systematic effort to create a mental model of flight dynamics for all subjects, which would therefore provide a context into which ADI information extraction could be incorporated. Five groups of flight-naive subjects were first provided with a standardized flight and scan …
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Computational formulation, modeling and evaluation of human-robot team training techniques
… present a computational formulation of the robot mental model, which encodes the sequence of robot actions towards task completion and the robot expectation over the preferred human actions, and show that it is quantitatively comparable to the human mental model that captures the interrole …
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Fostering Medication Adherence: An Application of Mental Models
… that patients and providers have various mental models or understandings of non-adherence, and that each understanding calls for different interventions. This qualitative analysis identifies ten mental models of medication non-adherence through a critical literature review; and uses …
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Investigating The Mechanisms That Drive Implicit Coordination In Teams
… test the oft-noted hypothesis that shared mental models lead to implicit coordination. Specifically, this dissertation investigated the underlying mechanisms of implicit coordination and how different aspects of shared mental models affect the process. The research questions tested in this …
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Grounded Learning Experience: Helping Students Learn Physics through Visuo-Haptic Priming and Instruction
… learning experience on college students' mental models of physics systems. The grounded learning experience consisted of a priming stage and an instruction stage, and within each stage, one of two different types of visuo-haptic representation was applied: visuo-gestural simulation (visual …
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Variation in mental models of text as a function of genre
… ""Does text genre affect the characteristics of mental representations built from text?"" As early as the turn of last century writing teachers used text genre to classify textual styles in rhetoric textbooks. Recently researchers have suggested that the characteristics of mental models formed …
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Health Systems Integration: Competing or Shared Mental Models?
… of this dissertation is to explore how Shared Mental Model Theory might advance our understanding and measurement of integration processes and performance. The first paper in this dissertation examines the evolution of healthcare integration strategies over twenty-five years as reported in the …
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An ethnographic investigation into the relationship between mental models and the implementation of total quality management
… improvement in an organisation requires fundamental changes in almost every facet or part of the organisational whole. These fundamental changes include changes to the organisational structure, its management practices, its work processes and systems , changes in the way that managers view the …
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Augmenting human intelligence via externalized knowledge representation and intelligent information retrieval
With a representation of a user's mental model in hand, a computer system can continuously query against a knowledge base of past work sessions or information on the Web and generate a set of recommended resources for the user to consider. In this thesis, I have developed an interface and a …
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