HFE 890 Understanding and Aiding Human Decision Making

Instructor: Prof. S. Narayanan, Ph.D., P.E.

Winter 1999

Course Material Organization:

Presentation Material Organization:

Group 1
- Topics:
  1. Theory of Human Problem Solving and
  2. GPS
Group 2
- Topics:
  1. Recognition-Primed Decision Making by Gary Klein, Sources of power: How people make decisions, 1998, MIT PRESS, Chapter 3 (pg. 15-30).
  2. Poor Decisions by Gary Klein, Sources of power: How people make decisions, 1998, MIT PRESS, Chapter 16 (pg. 271-284).
- Reference:
  A Designer's Associate for Command and Control Software Development by John G. Morris & Christine M. Mitchell.
- Presentation:
  Presentation Material

Group 3
- Topic:
  Nature of Expertise
  Five Steps from Novice to Expert by Dreyfus and Dreyfus, Mind over Machine, 1986
- Reference:
  Expertise and Decision under uncertainty by Eric J. Johnson, The Nature of Expertise, Eds. M.T.H.Chi, R.Glaser and M.J.Farr, 1998.
Group 4
- Topic:
  Sciences of the Artificial Chs. 1 & 3.
- Reference:
  Varieties of working memory as seen in biology and in connectionist/control architechtures by Walter Schneider.
Group 5
- Topic:
  Sciences of the Artificial Chs. 4 & 5.
- Reference:
  "A Simulation of Memory for Chess Positions" (1973) by Herbert A. Simon with Kevin J. Gilmartin in: "Models of Thought" by Herbert A. Simon, (1979), New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Chapter 6.3, pp 373-385).
Group 6
- Topic:
  Sciences of the Artificial Chs. 7 & 8.
- Reference:
  An Eclectic Approach to complexity from a Human-Centered Perspective by Oscar N. Garcia.
Group 7
- Topic:
  Cognitive Science Overview and Computing Machinery and Intelligence
- Reference:
  Minds, Brains and Programs by John R. Searle
Group 8
- Topic:
  Joint Cognitive v/s Expert Systems
  Cognitivie Technologies: The design of joint Human-Machine Cognitive Systems by David D. Woods.
- Reference:
  1. Experiences in the Development of a Medical Expert System Design of Computing Systems: Cognitive Considerations by Salvendy, Smith and Koubek, 1997.
  2. Expert Systems Technology by Henry P. Brasza.
Group 9
Group 10
- Topic:
  The Invisible Computer, Chs. 3, 5 & 6.
- Reference:
  Eyeglass-Based Systems For Wearable Computing by Spitzer et al.
Group 11
- Topic:
  The Invisible Computer, Chs. 8, 9 & 10
- Reference:
  Human error and the design of computer systems by Donald A. Norman.
Group 12
- Topic:
  The Invisible Computer, Chs. 11 &12
- Reference:
  The Computer for the 21st Century by Mark Weiser.
Group 13
- Topic:
  Mixed Initiative Systems
  Cox, M. T., & Veloso, M. M. (1997a). Controlling for unexpected goals when planning in a mixed-initiative setting. In E. Costa & A. Cardoso (Eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Eighth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 309-318).
- Reference:
  Cox, M. T., & Veloso, M. M. (1997b). Supporting combined human and machine planning: An interface for planning by analogical reasoning. In D. B. Leake & E. Plaza (Eds.), Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (pp. 531-540). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Contact Information:

Instructor:

Dr. S. Narayanan