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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"Mental models"”.
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Students' Mental Models of Chemical Reactions
… and chemical bonding indicates that students’ mental models are often inconsistent with the scientific models, which may impede learning of advanced concepts. International research suggests that model-based teaching and learning in science education shows promise in overcoming student …
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Employment system mental models in organisation building : founder’s mental models of employment in New Zealand biotechnology start-ups
… case study approach in examining founders’ mental models of the employment system and the organisations that they have built. The findings suggest that founders approach the human capital systems within their firm with a specific mental model of human capital organisation. These mental …
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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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Simulation of mental models with recurrent neural networks
Menschen sind in der Lage, mentale Modelle von Informationen, die sie aus der Umwelt aufnehmen, aufzubauen. Solche mentalen Modelle bilden die Grundlage für die Organisation und Strukturierung von sensorischer Information und Wissen und sind damit wesentlich, um Gedächtnisaufgaben ausführen zu …
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Gestures and mental models: A triple coding hypothesis
… purely verbal communication, and that this supplemental information can lead to more thorough mental models in the receiver by acting on a physical/motor modality in addition to the two modalities proposed in the dual code hypothesis. To further understand this issue, in this study, we examined …
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Language and Mental Models in Trigger-Action Programming
… of appropriate reasoning strategies and mental models. Prior research suggests that specific linguistic cues can facilitate the representation of trigger-action dynamics, thereby enhancing users' ability to define the behavior of their devices. This thesis investigates the role of …
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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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Exploring Shared Mental Models Within Submarine Tactical Multiteam Systems
… transition from individual teams to MTSs, shared mental model research, and facilitators and barriers to shared mental model development. Applying these concepts to a submarine crew provides an example of an MTS for future research. In this study I focus on the tactical portion of a submarine crew …
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Investigating users’ mental models of traditional and digital libraries
There is much HCI-related literature on mental models and on the usability of digital libraries, however there is no previously published literature on users’ mental models of either traditional or digital libraries. This is surprising, since many digital libraries are difficult to use and it is …
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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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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 Role of Feedforward-Enabled Predictive Analytics in Changing Mental Models
… depend on its ability to drive changes in the mental models of individual employees. Moreover, a critical facilitator of that will be the development of decision support tools that support change of those mental models. In response to this need there has been a tremendous growth in business …
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Interpretation of and reasoning with conditionals : probabilities, mental models, and causality
… to accept valid conclusions. The first experimental series tested the integrated model for conditional statements embedded in pseudo-natural cover stories that either established a causal relation between the antecedent and the consequent event (causal conditionals) or did not connect the …
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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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Visual programming in three dimensions : visual representations of computational mental models
… or novice programmer from learning other mental models of computation, which will come up as they explore further. This thesis proposes that by relating code to landscape or a building in space, code will both create and inhabit space. To enhance the designer's memory of their program the …
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An Experimental Design to Assess Team Performance Through Shared Mental Models
… focuses on the challenges of establishing shared mental models within teams, their performance, and possible acceleration of the formation of these shared mental models, to achieve the best possible outcomes of the system. In order to assess the quality of shared mental models, a framework for an …
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Planning and Team Shared Mental Models as Predictors of Team Collaborative Processes
… team planning and the similarity of team shared mental models (TSMMs) as predictors of two types of collaborative behaviors that are known to contribute to team performance. A computer-based Networked Fire Chief (NFC) simulation task was used as a testing environment for emergent and dynamic …
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Exploring Public Participation Decision-making at Superfund Sites: A Mental Models Approach
… participation in agency decisions on environmental issues, how best to engage the public remains controversial. Public participation is more challenging when complex and uncertain scientific or technical issues are involved. This research applies a mental model methodology to explore what …
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Exploring Public Participation Decision-making at Superfund Sites: A Mental Models Approach
… participation in agency decisions on environmental issues, how best to engage the public remains controversial. Public participation is more challenging when complex and uncertain scientific or technical issues are involved. This research applies a mental model methodology to explore what …
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