Mental Model Elicitation Device (MMED) Methods and Apparatus
First Claim
1. A method for eliciting mental models, comprising:
- (a) communicating predetermined representations of predetermined models and predetermined associations of elements of said models(b) storing and retrieving information elements that incorporate information, or transformations of such information as provided by said communications of said representations(c) interactively exchanging and manipulating said information elements(d) synthesizing new elements(e) wherein said new elements incorporate information derived from said interactive exchanges of elements, representations, or associations.(e) whereby said communication, storage, retrieval, and synthesis operations enhance the working memory and executive functionality of said operator(f) whereby said enhanced operator functionality and associated capabilities facilitate self-defining and self-improving of task performance of said operator.
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Abstract
A mental-model elicitation process and apparatus, called the Mental-Model Elicitation Device (MMED) is described. The MMED is used to give rise to more effective end-user mental-modeling activities that require executive function and working memory functionality. The method and apparatus is visual analysis based, allowing visual and other sensory representations to be given to thoughts, attitudes, and interpretations of a user about a given visualization of a mental-model, or aggregations of such visualizations and their respective blending. Other configurations of the apparatus and steps of the process may be created without departing from the spirit of the invention as disclosed.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for eliciting mental models, comprising:
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(a) communicating predetermined representations of predetermined models and predetermined associations of elements of said models (b) storing and retrieving information elements that incorporate information, or transformations of such information as provided by said communications of said representations (c) interactively exchanging and manipulating said information elements (d) synthesizing new elements (e) wherein said new elements incorporate information derived from said interactive exchanges of elements, representations, or associations. (e) whereby said communication, storage, retrieval, and synthesis operations enhance the working memory and executive functionality of said operator (f) whereby said enhanced operator functionality and associated capabilities facilitate self-defining and self-improving of task performance of said operator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for eliciting mental models, comprising of:
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(a) an electrical communications element (1002), a memory management element (1004), a logic and data processing element (1005), an operator interface data processing element (1012), a presentation processing of document data processing element (1014), and an education and demonstration element (1016) (b) wherein said communications element (1002) communicates predetermined representations of predetermined models and predetermined associations of elements of said models through interconnectivity to said memory management element (1004), said logic and data processing element (1005), said operator interface element (1012), said presentation processing of document data processing element (1014), and said education and demonstration element (1016) (c) wherein said communication events comprise of exchanges of information elements relating to said predetermined representations of said predetermined models and said predetermined associations of elements of said representations and models (d) wherein said communication events comprises storing and retrieving information elements that incorporate information, or transformations of such information (e) wherein said communication events comprises interactive exchanging and manipulating of said information elements (f) wherein said communication events comprises synthesizing elements and representations (g) wherein said new elements incorporate information derived from said interactive exchanges of elements, representations, or associations. (h) whereby said communication, storage, retrieval, and synthesis operations enhance the working memory and executive functionality of said operator (i) whereby said enhanced operator functionality and associated capabilities facilitate self-defining and self-improving of task performance of said operator. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of building an apparatus for eliciting mental models, comprising:
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(a) providing an electrical communications subelement (b) providing a dynamically extensible information storage and retrieval subelement (c) gathering representations of data models comprising of schema, schema elements, and related knowledge representation artifacts (d) constructing association matrices that explicitly relate elements of said representations, data models and associations of said elements with a plurality of other model domains (e) constructing memory elements comprising of said representations, data models, schema, schema elements, topics, and respective associations thereof (f) providing operator interface subelements. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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