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View article: Integrating psychometric and computational approaches to individual differences in multimodal reasoning
Integrating psychometric and computational approaches to individual differences in multimodal reasoning Open
Psychometric measures of ability are unsuited to computational descriptions of tasks, primarily because they cannot take process into account. Studies of aptitude-treatment interactions have often failed to replicate from task to task prec…
View article: Graphical effects in learning logic: reasoning, representation and individual differences
Graphical effects in learning logic: reasoning, representation and individual differences Open
Hyperproof is a computer program created by Barwise and Etchemendy for teaching logic using multimodal graphical and sentential methods, inspired by their theories of heterogeneous reasoning (Barwise and Etchemendy 1994). Elsewhere, we hav…
View article: Taking Care of the Linguistic Features of Extraversion
Taking Care of the Linguistic Features of Extraversion Open
We study how Extraversion or Introversion influences people's language production. A corpus of e-mail texts was gathered from individuals categorised via Eysenck's EPQ-R personality test. One experiment analysed the corpus using existing c…
View article: Interactional Context in Graphical Communication
Interactional Context in Graphical Communication Open
A body of empirical evidence indicates that interactional context has a key influence on the form and interpretation of language. This paper reviews a series of experiments which indicate that interactional context also plays a key role in…
View article: Anatomy is Symmetry’s Best Friend: Reflections on Modeling Baylis and Driver
Anatomy is Symmetry’s Best Friend: Reflections on Modeling Baylis and Driver Open
An aptitude for the detection of bilateral symmetry is a fairly prominent aspect of the human visual system. Knowledge of the reasons behind this facility is not so well established, however. Some of the behavioral data indicates that proc…
View article: Centre for design informatics
Centre for design informatics Open
opinion Free Access Share on Centre for design informatics Authors: Chris Speed View Profile , Jon Oberlander View Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 24Issue 2March + April 2017 pp 18–21https://doi.org/10.1145/3047400Publishe…
View article: Palimpsest: Improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature
Palimpsest: Improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature Open
Text mining and information visualization techniques applied to large-scale historical and literary document collections have enabled new types of humanities research. The assumption behind such efforts is often that trends will emerge fro…
View article: Designing from, with and by Data: Introducing the ablative framework
Designing from, with and by Data: Introducing the ablative framework Open
This paper introduces a framework for designers in which existing methodologies can be placed in order to better acknowledge how they work with data in different ways to support their practice. The paper starts by distinguishing three kind…
View article: Homing in on Twitter users: Evaluating an Enhanced Geoparser for User Profile Locations
Homing in on Twitter users: Evaluating an Enhanced Geoparser for User Profile Locations Open
Twitter-related studies often need to geo-locate Tweets or Twitter users, identifying their real-world geographic locations. As tweet-level geotagging remains rare, most prior work exploited tweet content, timezone and network information …
View article: Improving Topic Model Clustering of Newspaper Comments for Summarisation
Improving Topic Model Clustering of Newspaper Comments for Summarisation Open
Online newspaper articles can accumulate comments at volumes that prevent close reading. Summarisation of the comments allows interaction at a higher level and can lead to an understanding of the overall discussion. Comment summarisation r…
View article: This Table is Different: A WordNet-Based Approach to Identifying References to Document Entities
This Table is Different: A WordNet-Based Approach to Identifying References to Document Entities Open
Writing intended to inform frequently con-tains references to document entities (DEs), a mixed class that includes orthographically structured items (e.g., illustrations, sections, lists) and discourse entities (arguments, sug-gestions, po…