creators_name: Gray, Wayne
creators_name: Schoelles, Michael
creators_name: Myers, Christopher
editors_name: Forbus, Kenneth
editors_name: Gentner, Dedre
editors_name: Regier, Terry
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-05-05
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:03
metadata_visibility: show
title: Strategy Constancy Amidst Implementation Differences: Interaction-Intensive Versus Memory-Intensive Adaptations To Information Access In Decision-Making
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-hci
full_text_status: public
keywords: interactive behavior, simulated task environments, embodied cognition, knowledge in-the-head
abstract: Over the last two decades attempts to quantify decision-making have established that, under a wide range of conditions, people trade-off effectiveness for efficiency in the strategies they adopt. However, as interesting, significant, and influential as this research has been, its scope is limited by three factors; the coarseness of how effort was measured, the confounding of the costs of steps in the decision-making algorithm with the costs of steps in a given task environment, and the static nature of the decision tasks studied. In the current study, we embedded a decision-making task in a dynamic task environment and varied the cost required for the information access step. Across three conditions, small changes in the cost of interactive behavior led to changes in the strategy adopted for decision-making as well as to differences in how a step in the same strategy was implemented.
date: 2004
date_type: published
publisher: Cognitive Science Society
pagerange: 482-487
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Gray, Wayne and Schoelles, Michael and Myers, Christopher  (2004) Strategy Constancy Amidst Implementation Differences: Interaction-Intensive Versus Memory-Intensive Adaptations To Information Access In Decision-Making.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4347/1/GSM_SCAID_dstrbn.pdf