Abstract: One function of this chapter is to belabor the obvious; people’s views of the
world, of themselves, of their own capabilities, and of the tasks that they are
asked to perform, or topics they are asked to learn, depend heavily on the
conceptualizations that they bring to the task. In interacting with the environ
ment, with others, and with the artifacts of technology, people form internal,
mental models of themselves and of the things with which they are interacting.
These models provide predictive and explanatory power for understanding the
interaction. These statements hardly need be said, for they are consistent with all
that we have learned about cognitive processes and, within this book, represent
the major underlying conceptual theme. Nonetheless, it does not hurt to repeat
them and amplify them, for the scope of the implications of this view is larger
than one might think.
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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