Keeping It Too Simple: How the Reductive Tendency Affects Cognitive Engineering

  • Authors:
  • P. J. Feltovich;R. R. Hoffman;D. Woods;A. Roesler

  • Affiliations:
  • Inst. for Human & Machine Cognition, Univ. of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

When faced with complex tasks and information, people sometimes deal with the complexity through oversimplification, which can lead to misconception and faulty knowledge application. This has serious implications for cognitive engineers designing complex sociotechnical systems.