Designing Computers for Cognition



Designing Computers for Cognition

General Guidelines

The designing of Computers for cognation is based on research paradigm including the advances designing, concurrent practices and design experiments that have been demonstrated for significant potential. These design-based researches speculate synergistic connection of various engineering and designing researches (Brown & Collins, 1992). The experiments for advance designing manifests both the educational and scientific values by involving researchers actively in procedures of teaching and learning through the exploration, dissemination, confirmation, and discovery processes (Kelly, 2003). The design-based approaches of researcher have been intrinsically related to the development of multiple designing methodologies assuming the processes of designers to draw methods and procedures and methods.

Thus, the research based on designing may not substitute the other methodologies, instead offers an different approach emphasizing on concurrent, scalable, and direct progression in studies, practices and theory. The design-based research is term encompassing the use of various literature, design researches, development researches, formative researches and experiments. There may be a slight difference in these designed based approaches and goal but, altogether with these similarities and distinctions between these research define methodologies that are systematic as well as flexible and aims towards the improvement of educational practices applying the collaboration based iterative analysis for designing, developing, and implementing. The practitioners and researcher consider the real world and contextual designing that leads to relevant theories for the designing of cognitive computers. The researchers illustrate the following characteristics

Pragmatic

The researches based on designing improve the theories and practices for cognitive designing of computers. The theories are valued on the basis of the level or degree of improvement and infirmity it provides for principles in practice.

Grounded

The cognitive Designing driven by relevant theory, researches and practices, where the designing processes are embedded through studies and researches and the designing in practice is based on the real-world settings.

Iterative and Interactive

The designers participate in the process of designing with the flexible practitioners because of complexities and diversities in the relationships of theory and practices. The cognitive designing processes include the analysis, designing, implementing, and redesigning through iterative cycle. The Initial plan is comprehensive for designers to draw out deliberate changes if required (Cobb et al., 2003).

Integrative

In progress researches are maximized for credibility though mixing different research methods in use. The methods may change as new problems and requirements may arise throughout various stages or phases of cognitive designing. Rigidity is persistently preserved for sustainability and discipline, which is appropriate for the development stage.

Contextual

The documentation is necessary for initial plans of research findings, changes, and processes. The results obtained through researches are to be connected with the settings of design process. The design principles may vary in content and its depth and guidance is essential to apply the principles generated. The generalization of research findings can enhance when authorize for the effective designing of more involvements in further contexts” (Akker, 1999).

For successful achievement in designing of cognitive computers architectures that are provided by different learning mechanisms that allows designer for new knowledge ...