HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Cognitive dimensions of notations
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Task-analytic approach to the automated design of graphic presentations
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Designing interaction: psychology at the human-computer interface
Designing interaction: psychology at the human-computer interface
Compiler transformations for high-performance computing
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine
Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine
Interactive visualisation artifacts: how can abstractions inform design?
HCI '95 Proceedings of the HCI'95 conference on People and computers X
External cognition: how do graphical representations work?
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Visual language theory: towards a human computer interaction perspective
Visual language theory
Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 2
On the effective use and reuse of HCI knowledge
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 2
Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search
Communications of the ACM
Data Structures and Algorithms
Data Structures and Algorithms
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology
CT '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind
Theory-based Analysis of Cognitive Support in Software Comprehension Tools
IWPC '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Analyzing human-computer interaction as distributed cognition: the resources model
Human-Computer Interaction
Theory adapters as discipline coordinators
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Interdisciplinary software engineering research
Cognitive support for ontology modeling
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Protégé: community is everything
The Design Space of Information Presentation: Formal Design Space Analysis with FCA and Semiotics
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications
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Computer tools for cognitively challenging activities are considered useful, to a great extent, because of the support that they provide for human thinking and problem solving. To analyze, specify, and design cognitive support, a suitable analytic framework is required. Theories of "distributed cognition" have been offered as potentially suitable frameworks, but they have generally failed to plainly articulate comprehensive theories of cognitive support. This paper seeks to clarify the intellectual foundations for studying and designing cognitive support, and aims to put them in a form suitable for design. A framework called RODS is described as a type of minimal, lightweight intellectual toolkit. Its main aim is to allow analysts to think in high-level cognition-support terms rather than be overwhelmed by task- and technology-specific implementation details. Framing usefulness in terms of cognitive support makes it possible to define abstract patterns of what makes tools "good". Implications are drawn for how the framework may be used for the design of tools in cognitively challenging work domains.