A Cognitive Assistant for improving human reasoning skills

Le, Nguyen-Thinh; Wartschinski, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.02.005

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“…ComMentor (Weusijana et al, 2004) Claimed to be Socratic No (Paul and Elder, 2006) http://www.argotario.net/ 14 Le and Wartschinski (2018) Human reasoning (Paul and Elder, 2006) http://141.20.25.58/liza…”

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“…For example, the framework of critical thinking proposed by Paul and Elder (2006) includes the class of questions that probe reason and evidence. Le and Wartschinski (2018) proposed a cognitive assistant that holds conversation with students to develop human reasoning skills. This study, with more than 60 test persons, showed significant improvement in reasoning skills.…”

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“…Pursuing the similar aim, an existing serious game, Argotario (Habernal et al, 2017) addressed argumentation and critical thinking skills by identifying fallacies in arguments and intentionally developing fallacious arguments during the process of playing a game. Both the cognitive assistant developed by Le and Wartschinski (2018) and the serious game Argotario proposed a conversational agent as the communication interface with the user. However, the difference between these systems lies in the training tasks.…”

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“…However, the difference between these systems lies in the training tasks. The cognitive assistant developed by Le and Wartschinski (2018) covered several issues that lead to irrational thoughts and decisions: (1) sunk cost fallacy, (2) gambler's fallacy, (3) Bayesian reasoning, (4) belief bias in syllogistic reasoning, (5) regression toward the mean, (6) co-variation detection, and (7) Wason's selection tasks.…”

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How Do Technology-Enhanced Learning Tools Support Critical Thinking?

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This paper reviews existing computer-supported learning systems that have claimed to adopt Socratic methods for enhancing critical thinking. Several notions of Socratic methods are differentiated: the critical thinking framework of Paul and Elder (2006), the classic Socratic method, the modern Socratic method, and the neo-Socratic group discussion method. Three lessons are highlighted. First, the development of learning systems specifically supporting critical thinking is still lacking Thus, further research in this area is urgent. Second, most developed computer-supported learning systems claim to support Socratic approaches (e.g., Socratic tutoring) which are based on human tutoring strategies and do not show a systematic Socratic method. Third, the classic Socratic method has not been applied in any reviewed learning system.

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“…The authors were not able to test and validate the proposed system in real case scenarios and they expressed it would be necessary to select people with cognitive impairments for further system testing and evaluation as the only tests performed in this study used people without any cognitive disabilities. Nguyen-Thinh and Laura [20] proposed a cognitive assistant to improve the reasoning and decision-making ability of users by teaching the user different topics while holding a conversation with them using natural language processing and a dialog model. The authors performed a study to validate the developed model with 65 participants and obtained positive feedback regarding the interaction with the system, however the authors expressed a larger sample as well as a larger testing timespan would be necessary to further validate the results of the presented study.…”

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A Conceptual Approach to Enhance the Well-Being of Elderly People

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The number of elderly people living alone is increasing. Consequently, a lot of research works have been addressing this issue in order to propose solutions that can enhance the quality of life of elderly people. Most of them have been concerned in dealing with objective issues such as forgetfulness or detecting falls. In this paper, we propose a conceptual approach of a system that intends to enhance the daily sense of user's well-being. For that, our proposal consists in a system that works as a social network and a smartwatch application that works unobtrusively and collects the user's physiological data. In addition, we debate how important features such as to detect user's affective states and to potentiate user's memory could be implemented. Our study shows that there are still some important limitations which affect the success of applications built in the context of elderly care and which are mostly related with accuracy and usability of this kind of system. However, we believe that with our approach we will be able to address some of those limitations and define a system that can enhance the wellbeing of elderly people and improve their cognitive capabilities.

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