mis%SU-Tahoma@sri-unix.UUCP (04/04/84)
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
M. Pavel & D. Sleeman
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S.P.A - SEMINAR IN PROTOCOL ANALYSIS
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Introduction to protocol analysis:
an example from developmental psychology.
Jean Gascon
Stuart Card
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The first of this series of seminars on protocol analysis
will be structured as a tutorial on protocol analysis and comput-
er simulation. Stuart Card will give a brief overview of the
history, motivation and practice of the methodology. Jean Gascon
will then illustrate, with a simple example, how protocol
analysis is performed. The application area will come from
developmental psychology. First, protocols of children of vari-
ous ages performing one of Piaget's "seriation" task will be
shown. We will then explain how one goes from the actual data to
the construction of the "problem space" (a la Newell and Simon).
The next step consists of regrouping the problem spaces of dif-
ferent subjects into a more general psychological model (dubbed
BG in this particular case). We will see how the BG language fa-
cilitates the writing of simulation models. A computer program
that does automatic protocol analysis of the seriation protocols
will then be introduced. This program provides some additional
insights about the process of protocol analysis itself. In the
conclusion we will discuss the advantages and inconveniences of
protocol analysis relative to the other methodologies available
in cognitive psycholgy.
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Place: Jordan Hall, Room 100
Time: 1:00 pm, Wednesday April 11, 1984
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