Paper Info
Title
The ATB Framework: Quantifying and Classifying Epistemic Strategies in Tangible Problem-Solving Tasks
Abstract
In task performance, pragmatic actions refer to behaviors that make direct progress, while epistemic actions involve altering the world so that cognitive processes are faster, more reliable or less taxing. Epistemic actions are frequently presented as a beneficial consequence of interacting with tangible systems. However, we currently lack tools to measure epistemic behaviors, making substantiating such claims highly challenging. This paper addresses this problem by presenting ATB, a video-coding framework that enables the identification and measurement of different epistemic actions during problem-solving tasks. The framework was developed through a systematic literature review of 78 papers, and analyzed through a study involving a jigsaw puzzle -- a classical spatial problem -- involving 60 participants. In order to assess the framework's value as a metric, we analyze the study with respect to its reliability, validity and predictive power. The broadly supportive results lead us to conclude that the ATB framework enables the use of observed epistemic behaviors as a performance metric for tangible systems. We believe that the development of metrics focused explicitly on the properties of tangible interaction are currently required to gain insight into the genuine and unique benefits of tangible interaction. The ATB framework is a step towards this goal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2677199.2680546
Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
epistemic actions,tangible interaction,user interfaces,video-coding
Predictive power,Systematic review,Computer science,Performance metric,Human–computer interaction,Cognition,Epistemology,Jigsaw
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
19
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Augusto Esteves115815.77
Saskia Bakker228429.46
Alissa Nicole Antle319531.11
Aaron May461.01
Jillian Warren5354.83
Ian Oakley685575.83