Cognition and Computers

Computers As Social Actors Date: 17th Feb 2020/Monday This article begins with a very interesting story about a man found shouting I am going to kill you, the residents heard the shouts and called the police. On arriving the police found that the man was shouting on the computer. So basically this directs us towards how computers persuade humans to behave in a specific manner. Social cues from computers are important to understand because they trigger automatic responses from people. As a social actor the computer does three things, first it rewards the people with positive feedback, they model a target behavior and third they provide social support. Interacting directly with a computer is a social experience. If a technology is physically attractive, it will have greater persuasive power. For example if an interface, device or onscreen character is physically attractive , it may have an halo effect, user may assume the product is intelligent , capable and reliable. If interactive...

Evolution of Cognition Date: 12th Feb 2020/Wednesday This was a challenging reading yet extremely important because this provided an insight into how are we actually using the education technology in schools or universities currently. The tasks teachers usually design end up in rote learning experiences requiring low cognitive demand and low element interactivity in the working memory. I could think and map apps and tasks that either lead to cognitive engagement or decrease cognitive engagement. The article begins by looking into the cognitive architectures, the different elements of the cognitive architecture that include  working memory, long term memory,schemas, automation and coalescing of isolated cognitive structures. Before this it explains the concept of high interactivity between elements in the working memory and low interactivity. My understanding of high interactivity is where the elements need to interact simultaneously for understanding to occur. For example when...

Cognitive Architectures Date:4th Feb 2020/Tuesday Lets begin this blog post by understanding what is a cognitive architecture. My little understanding is that it is similar to a buildings architecture, just like a building had floor, it has rooms, the rooms have cabinets installed, they have furniture which can be moved in and out, appliances installed or movable and so on.Similarly, a mind has an architecture which needs to be explored and understood. So, cognitive architecture is a theory , framework which looks at the structure of the human mind and how they work together to manage intelligent behavior in a complex environment. Cognitive computing looks at simulating human problem solving and processing skills. These basically include those aspects of the system that remain constant over time, these include the short term and long term memories that hold the knowledge, beliefs and goals. But what needs to be understood is that the content in the memory changes, so it cannot be ...