Cognitive operator: Reduction by elimination
Operator
Complexity level
Complexity of this oprator is 1.
Operations
Operation 1 : Eliminate inputs untill reaching the expected remainder.
Purpose
This operator will allow to work the elimination and "decision to discard" process. Depending on the requirement, the elimination of inputs can be univoque (f.e : eliminate all inputs that are NOT animals), merely because addressin an objective evaluation of acceptance, or can be more fuzzy, in case calling to subjectiveness, or when inputs do not present a clear and neat match with the requirements.
Applications
Direct Workflow
- Students collectively inputs a list of items
- Teacher setup the operator and requirements
- Teacher makes a teacher choice, standing for expected result (optional)
- Students are asked to make their choice
- Students explore other answers, self positionning in environmental information, and scores
- Students report by arguing about their reasons and choices
- Teacher feedbacks individually or collectively
Pragmatic application :
"Give ideas for the Spring school trip, and brainstorm proposals to extract 3 awarded destinations"
Reverse Workflow
- Teacher inputs a list of items
- Teacher setup the operator and requirements
- Teacher makes a teacher choice, standing for expected result (optional)
- Students are asked to make their choice
- Students explore other answers, and self positionning in environemental information
- Students report by arguing about their reasons
- Teacher feedbacks individually or collectively
Application :
"Discard all non poetic styled sentences in a list"
Meta Workflow
This operator can be used to demonstrate :
- interrationality of choices that can diverge for cultural, societal, background, or contextual reasons
- the difficulty of weighting and deciding to eliminate
Implementation
Setup
- final amount of items: fixes the amount of items each participant must keep (by deduction how many there should be eliminated)
- discard more than required: if enabled, allows participant to discard more items, (including all).
Teacher setting :
- allow source reduction: Yet to refine concept : if enabled, allows retroaction of a choice on the source set by removing eliminated answers.
- blindness: See Cognitive Factory Module for complete information about blindness and privacy behaviour.
Categorize GUI
Operator GUI is a simple GUI that allows checking inputs to discard untill constraint is reached. Scalability concerns should address what happens for very big lists of items (> 30).
- Blind mode: No information is given to user before the Display step is enabled.
- Semi blind mode: In semi-blind mode, after all answers have been given, a sum of how many positive votes have been given for each answer is displayed, along with percentage rate over all the audience.
- Full View mode: Same as above, but displayed before answers are given.
Display GUI
- Blind mode:
- If teacher has given answer, will give matching information compared to teacher, with a global match count indicator
- If teacher has not given answer, will give answer summary against a global votes count in the audience.
- Semi Blind Mode: Same as above, but adding a global anonymous table of all answers.
- Full View Mode: Global answer table is not anymore anonymous, and GUI provides mean to pair compare participant answer to other peer.
