Cognitive operator: Hierarchization
Operator
Complexity level
The hierarchization operator is known as a fractal complexity level.
Operations
1 Arrange ideas in a tree
Purpose
Tree organisation ask for identifying unique antecedant dependency which results of a non unique resolution of a strict ordering. Hierarchization requires to carefull understand the implicit "classification" mental operation that will conclude in one item being located in a sub branch of a node, thus accepting to belong to this node 'sub classes'.
Applications
Direct Workflow
- Students input some ideas upon teacher requirement.
- Teacher setup a hierarchization operator with some constraints on tree
- Students perform the hierarchization
- Students comare and analize different solutions of peers, or compare to teacher answer as assessment
- Students argue and report
- Teacher feedbacks individually or collectively and grades
Reverse Workflow
Meta Workflow
This exercice can be used to discover the difficulty of organizing semantic taxonomies, that will need a unique resolution of ascendance.
Implementation
Setup
- tree max depth: constraints the number of tree layers the information can be organized on
- branch max arity: constraints the max number of sons a node can have
Teacher options :
- blindness: See Cognitive Factory Module for complete information about blindness and privacy behaviour
Hierarchize GUI
- Blind mode:
- Semi-blind mode:
- Full view mode: Same as above, but trends are visible before the participant has answered
Display GUI
Describes what can be expected as result display and exploration GUI behaviour for each privacy mode (Blind, Semi-blind, Full view / No privacy).
Merely Display GUI are visualizing tools aiming at :
- Help participant assess himself against a teacher answer of exists
- Help participant to self-position himself in a group (knowing global trends)
- Help participant to examine the group answer structure anonimized
- Help participant to examine and argue nominatively with peers (full view)
- Observe and find emerging organisations from the group answers
- Discover how some cognitive operations work
