Metacognitive and computational aspects of chance discovery

  • Authors:
  • Ruediger Oehlmann

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE, UK

  • Venue:
  • New Generation Computing - Special issue on chance discovery
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Chance discovery is concerned with events or situations that affect human decision making; such events or situations are viewed as opportunities or risks. Perspectives are mental representations that describe partial knowledge of a task domain (cognitive perspective) as well as knowledge about other participants (social perspectives). Based on verbal protocols and a computational model of these protocols, it is argued that perspective taking is a suitable strategy to achieve chance discovery. Therefore the cognitive mechanisms underlying this strategy have been investigated and the results implicate metacognition as necessary requirement to achieve chance discovery.