A Game-based Approach to Comparing Different Coordination Mechanisms (2009)
Kenneth M. Ford, Niranjan Suri, Pavel Jisl, Petr Benda, Michal Pěchouček
Abstract—Achieving coordinated behavior among multiple physical or logical entities is a challenging problem. Research in coordination has traditionally focused on either centralized or distributed...
STORM-LK stands for System To Organize Representations in Meteorology- (2009)
Robert R. Hoffman, Ph. D, John W. Coffey, Ed. D, Kenneth M. Ford, Ph. D, ...
created as a part of a project aimed at illustrating the paradigm of Human-Centered Computing. The selected domain of application was weather forecasting, and in particular forecasting in the Gulf...
Gary Klein, Klein Associates, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Robert R. Hoffman, Paul J. Feltovich, R. Hoffman, ...
We propose 10 challenges for making automation components into effective “team players ” when they interact with people in significant ways. Our analysis is based on some of the principles of...
During World War I, the British Health and Munitions (2008)
Robert R. Hoffman, Patrick Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford, R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Afundamental stance taken in human-centered computing is that information-processing devices must be thought of in systems terms. At first blush, this seems self-evident. However, the notion has a...
James M. Nyce, R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
So, what is an end user, really? And what do we really mean by the procurement process? Human factors researchers often take certain agendas, terms, and theories for granted or rely on them out of...
Human-Centered Computing The Sacagawea Principle Mica Endsley, SA Technologies (2008)
Robert R. Hoffman, Machine Cognition, R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Many software tools and systems restrict the availability of information and make information integration and exploration difficult. 1 Poorly designed tools are often brittle, because they prescribe...
Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman, Machine Cognition, David Woods, Axel Roesler, R. Hoffman, ...
Certain features of tasks make them especially difficult for humans. These constitute leverage points for applying intelligent technologies, but there’s a flip side. Designing complex cognitive...
Human-Centered Computing Toward a Theory of Complex and Cognitive Systems (2008)
Robert R. Hoffman, Machine Cognition, David D. Woods, R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Essays in this department have presented nine propositions that we’ve referred to as principles of humancentered computing: • The Aretha Franklin Principle: Do not devalue the human in order to...
Human-Centered Computing The Pleasure Principle (2008)
Robert R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Machine Cognition, R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
The list of “concepts that psychology really can’t do without ” includes such notions as neuronal connectionism, degrees of consciousness, mental representation of information, and...
Rosaceae: The rose family (2008)
Robert R. Hoffman, Paul J. Feltovich, Kenneth M. Ford, David D. Woods, Gary Klein, Klein Associates, ...
Multiflorae: Trans-species root stock In this essay, we concern ourselves with characterizations of the “new ” approaches to the design of complex sociotechnical systems, and we use a biological...
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Gary Klein, Karol G. Ross, Brian M. Moon, Klein Associates, Devorah E. Klein, Insight Product Development, ...
If we engineer complex cognitive systems on the basis of mistaken or inappropriate views of cognition, we can wind up designing systems that degrade performance rather than improve it. The results...
Knowledge Construction and Sharing in Quorum (2007)
John Brennan, Thomas Reichherzer, Alberto Caas Kenneth, Alberto J. Caas, Kenneth M. Ford, Kenneth M. Ford, ...
The purpose of this paper is to report on a continuing research effort aimed at the design and development of large-scale international computer network connecting schools in at least ten countries...
Human-Centered Computing Work-arounds, Make-work, and Kludges (2007)
Philip Koopman, Robert R. Hoffman, Machine Cognition, R. Hoffman, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Paradigms are often defined partly in terms of what they are not, or in terms of what they are reacting against. The paradigm of human-centered computing is no exception. In response to an essay in...
Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Maggie R. Breedy, Kenneth M. Ford, Paul T. Groth, Gregory A. Hill, ...
Current versions of Java fail to address many of the unique challenges posed by the new generation of distributed applications and mobile agent systems. Aroma is a Java-compatible Virtual Machine...
The Giant: An Agentbased Approach to Knowledge Construction (1998)
Thomas R. Reichherzer, Alberto J. Cañas, Kenneth M. Ford, Patrick J. Hayes
The purpose of this paper is to report on a research project of a software agent, called the Giant, to support knowledge construction and sharing among learners. The Giant is embedded in an...
The Giant: A Classroom Collaborator (1998)
Thomas R. Reichherzer, Alberto J. Cañas, Kenneth M. Ford, Patrick J. Hayes
The purpose of this paper is to report on the research involved in the development of a software agent—the Giant — that collaborates with students in their construction and sharing of knowledge....
Why Gödel's Theorem Cannot Refute Computationalism (1998)
Geoffrey Laforte, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Gdel's theorem is consistent with the computationalist hypothesis. Roger Penrose, however, claims to prove that Gdel's theorem implies that human thought cannot be mechanized. We review his...
Why Gödel's Theorem Cannot Refute Computationalism (1998)
Geoffery Laforte, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Gödel's theorem is consistent with the computationalist hypothesis. Roger Penrose, however, claims to prove that Gödel's theorem implies that human thought cannot be mechanized. We review...
Why Gödel’s theorem cannot refute computationalism (1998)
Geoffery Laforte, Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford
Gödel's theorem is consistent with the computationalist hypothesis. Roger Penrose, however, claims to prove that Gödel's theorem implies that human thought cannot be mechanized. We review...
Knowledge construction and sharing in quorum (1995)
Alberto J. Cañas, Alberto J. Cañas, Kenneth M. Ford, Kenneth M. Ford, Patrick J. Hayes, Patrick J. Hayes, ...
The purpose of this paper is to report on a continuing research effort aimed at the design and development of large-scale international computer network connecting schools in at least ten countries...
On babies and bathwater: A cautionary tale (1994)
Patrick J. Hayes, Kenneth M. Ford, Neil Agnew
■ One should not throw out the baby with the bathwater, according to an old aphorism. Some popular recent positions in AI thinking have done just this, we suggest, by rejecting the useful idea of...
Modeling Our Adaptive Intelligence, Not God's (1993)
Hayes, Patrick J., Ford, Kenneth M.
Fetzer misunderstands our use of the term "frame problem", taking the term to refer to, contrary to the original definition (McCarthy, 1963), a larger problem of change, which is an instance of the...
Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World: the Frame Problem (1992)
Hayes, Patrick J., Ford, Kenneth M.
What happens when one picks up a brick? Any child knows that the brick is now held in the air, there is one fewer object on the ground, and THAT'S ALL. For over twenty years it has been astonishingly...
Herpetofauna of the Albert Ahrens local fauna (Pleistocene : Irvingtonian), Nebraska / (1992)
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1992.
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1992.