mental models

Mental models (which can be in the form of diagrams and charts) are often helpful for learning the details of a lesson.

Sally has mental models as well; hers lead her to frame leaders as different than managers.

Mental models are deeply ingrained and are often the result of a lifetime of experience.

If we are to understand the web as it is, rather than as it once was, we need more realistic mental models of it.

of personas and their mental models should provide a solid foundation for both the textual and visual language used in an interface.

solve design problems with the fewest additions of form and behavior, in conformance to the mental models of your personas.

Help them develop the mental models they need to understand how XForms can meet their organizational objectives.

By becoming more conscious of his mental models, he primed them for use in spontaneous communication with Sally.

What differentiates the course from a self-help manual, however, are the mental models and long-term exercises the professor sets.

The shortage of guidance of perfect mental models is one important reason of failure of business process reengineering (BPR) in enterprises.

It works because we have stored two mental models that are so much alike that our brains can't decide which is the correct one.

this require refined design practices, as well as close examination of persona needs, goals, and mental models.

Coaching is a new management technology through improving the mental models to exert employees'potential and enhance their efficiency.

Many users' mental models are of things moving inside the computer, and this little gem actually shows things moving.

Do I have sufficiently powerful mental models of those things I must understand within the organization and in its environment?

We will use our mental models to make sense of the context, but for what reason?

shared mental models can't be a mediating variable between team effectiveness and times.

A new study found that people tend to have rather inaccurate mental models of their own hands.

We introduced the concept of mental models in Chapter 2.

This kind of coupling of mental models and scripts leads to intelligent mistakes in all walks of life.

As more information is received, you deconstruct old mental models, then create new ones to better fit the situation.

A behavioral script may be shared among various mental models.

Mental models make us more efficient at processing information.

User interfaces should be based on user mental models rather than implementation models.

The most important reason to do user research is to get information about users' mental models.

From a humanistic perspective based on our users' mental models, these actions are natural and normal.

A behavioral script will embody mental models, which identify objects in the world and the rules by which they behave.

So, whenever possible, we must think through our mental models in advance of our need for them.

Thus, we can see how Don's mental models influence what he sees and how he frames the situation for Sally.

The construction of writing mental models can be regarded as an innovation in English writing course.

to render the file system according to users' mental models, we can achieve several significant advantages.

That is principle that makes mental models important to communication.

Developmental Characteristics of Two Types of Shared Mental Models

The underlying problem here is a mismatch between the tester's and the developer's mental models of the program;

Mental models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

Analysis of the Organizational Knowledge Management Based on Organizational Shared Mental Models

Researches on Mental Models and Elicitation Techniques

The Research on Customer Value and Mental Models of the Expectation

Improving Mental Models in Web-based Learning Environment

Implementation Models and Mental Models

Business Process Reengineering Based on Improving Mental Models of Enterprises

Mental Models Theory of Reasoning, The

Suggestions on improving the mental models

The Introduction of some Mental Models and Tools for Creativity Support

A Study on the Mental Models of Atoms and Molecules of Middle School

Spatial Relations in Mental Models

We tend to form mental models that are simpler than reality;

The Formation of Enterpriser Mental Models and the Influence on the Development of the Corporate