Thinking with External Representations

Kirsh, D. (2010). Thinking with External Representations. AI & Society, 25(4), 441-454.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2010

DOI

10.1007/s00146-010-0272-8

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-010-0272-8

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psychology

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Primes

• Epistemic Action
  • In software engineering printing variables, running a REPL, drawing the call graph, or rebasing to linearise history reduces future-reasoning load without changing behaviour.

    This sourceExplains how people create and manipulate external representations to change the cost structure of inference and offload working memory — supporting epistemic actions such as printing variables, drawing call graphs, running a REPL, and re-orienting/windowing displays to make the next reasoning step cheaper.

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