Course Cognitive Engineering

Carinthia Tech Institute, Villach, Austria

Summer Term 2007

Thomas Barkowsky


Schematic route maps (2 sources)

Agrawala, M., & Stolte, C. (2000). A design and implementation for effective computer-generated route maps. AAAI Symposium on Smart Graphics, March 2000. [pdf]

Agrawala, M., & Stolte, C. (2001). Rendering effective route maps: Improving usability through generalization. Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2001 Proceedings), August 2001. [pdf]


Spatial concepts and navigation I

Bertel, S., Obendorf, H., & Richter, K.-F. (2004). User-centered views and spatial concepts for navigation in information spaces (SFB/TR 8 Report No. 001-09/2004). Universität Bremen / Universität Freiburg: Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition. [pdf]


Cognitive dimensions and user attention (2 sources)

Blackwell, A. F., & Green, T. R. G. (1999). Investment of attention as an analytic approach to cognitive dimensions. In T. Green, R. Abdullah, & P. Brna (Eds.), Collected papers of the 11th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG-11) (pp. 24-35). [pdf]

Green, T. R. G. (2000). Instructions and descriptions: some cognitive aspects of programming and similar activities. In V. di Gesù, S. Levialdi, & L. Tarantino (Eds.), Proc. of Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000) (pp. 21-28). New York: ACM Press. [pdf]


Spatial concepts and navigation II (2 sources)

Furnas, G. W. (1997). Effective view navigation. Human factors in computing systems, Proc. ACM CHI 97. [pdf]

Maglio, P. P., & Matlock, T. (1998). Metaphors we surf the web by. Workshop on Personal and Social Navigation in Information Space, Stockholm, Sweden (pp. 138-149). [pdf]


Problem solving in design

Goldschmidt, G. (1995). The designer as a team of one. Design Studies, 16, 189-209. [pdf]


Assembly instructions (2 sources)

Heiser, J., & Phan, D. & Agrawala, M., & Tversky, B. & Hanrahan P. (2004). Identification and validation of cognitive design principles for automated generation of assembly instructions. AVI '04: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces (pp. 311-319). Gallipoli, Italy: ACM Press. [pdf]

Agrawala, M., Phan, D., Heiser, J., Haymaker, J., Klingner, J., Hanrahan, P., & Tversky, B. (2003). Designing effective step-by-step assembly instructions. ACM Trans. Graph., 22 (3), 828-837. [pdf]


Cognitive Simulation

Itoh, K., Yamaguchi, T., Hansen, J. P., & Nielsen, F. R. (2001). Risk analysis of ship navigation by use of cognitive simulation. Cognition, Technology & Work, 3, 4-21. [pdf]


Wayfinding Choremes (2 sources)

Klippel, A. (2003). Wayfinding Choremes. In W. Kuhn, M. F. Worboys, & S. Timpf (Eds.), Spatial information theory: Foundations of geographic information science (pp. 320-334). Berlin: Springer. [pdf]

Klippel, A., Richter, K.-F., & Hansen, S. (2005). Wayfinding choreme maps. In S. Bres, E. A. Emerson, & R. Laurini (Eds.), Visual information and information systems. 8th international conference VISUAL 2005. Berlin: Springer. [pdf]


Geographic categories

Mark, D. M., Skupin, A., & Smith, B. (2001). Features, objects, and other things: Ontological distinctions in the geographic domain. In D. Montello (Ed.), Spatial Information Theory (pp. 488-502). Berlin: Springer. [pdf]


Mental reasoning and instruction

Narayanan, N. H., & Hegarty, M. (1998). On designing comprehensible interactive hypermedia manuals. Int. J. Human-Computer Studies, 48, 267-301. [pdf]


Landmarks

Sorrows, M. E., & Hirtle, S. C. (1999). The nature of landmarks for real and electronic spaces. In C. Freksa & D. M. Mark (Eds.), Spatial information theory - Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (pp. 37-50). Berlin: Springer. [pdf]