Applications of Analogical Reasoning

Klein, Gary

doi:10.1207/s15327868ms0203_3

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Analogical reasoning is based on a structure-mapping process through which relationships between objects or attributes are mapped from the old, base domain to a new, target domain (Gentner 1983) and knowledge from the base domain is used to operate the target domain. Analogical reasoning is particularly useful in situations involving missing data, ill-defined goals, and incomplete specification of parameters (Klein 1987), as is the case with new product adoption. Analogical reasoning, therefore, can help customers resolve incongruity.…”

Section: The Symbolic Dimension Of Product Innovations: Visual Similamentioning

confidence: 99%

When Is a New Thing a Good Thing? Technological Change, Product Form Design, and Perceptions of Value for Product Innovations

Rindova

Petkova

2007

Organization Science

362

327

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I nnovation researchers recognize that the uncertainty with regard to the value-creating potential of product innovations increases with their technological novelty, and have argued that the usefulness and value of novel products are socially constructed. Despite this recognition, researchers have not explored how the outer form in which a technological innovation is embodied influences the processes through which the innovation's value is constructed and perceived. In this paper we argue that by embodying novel technologies in objects with specific functional, symbolic, and aesthetic properties, innovating firms also endow their products with cues that trigger a variety of cognitive and emotional responses. Drawing on psychological research we articulate how such cognitive and emotional responses underlie initial perceptions of value and theorize how innovating firms can influence them through product form design. Our framework explains how product form contributes to perceptions of value by modulating the actual technological novelty of a product innovation and facilitating how customers cope with it. Our theoretical framework makes an important contribution to innovation research and practice because it articulates how product form can be used strategically to achieve specific cognitive and emotional effects and enhance the initial customer perceptions of the value of an innovation.

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Section: The Symbolic Dimension Of Product Innovations: Visual Similamentioning

confidence: 99%

When Is a New Thing a Good Thing? Technological Change, Product Form Design, and Perceptions of Value for Product Innovations

Rindova

Petkova

2007

Organization Science

362

327

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“…Recognition-based reasoning relies upon analogical reasoning, which involves making inferences from the similarity of relationships of elements across two or more domains. 33 Analogy can involve specific cases or highly abstract concepts or schemas. The use of analogy may also be referred to as case-based reasoning, as distinct from rule-based (analytical) reasoning.…”

Section: Immersive Stereo Displays and High-level Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immersive stereo displays, intuitive reasoning, and cognitive engineering

Patterson¹,

Silzars²

2009

J Soc Info Display

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Abstract— Stereoscopic displays have generated great interest in the display community in recent years. Despite this interest, there can be a problem with their use when such displays contain high‐level cue conflict, which refers to multiple cues conveying different depths to a viewer, creating “eye” strain and discomfort. It can be argued that the basis for this discomfort is to be found in the mental processes of human reasoning. Specifically, immersive stereo displays that depict real‐world scenes primarily engage an intuitive reasoning system, which attempts (and fails) to make reasoned sense out of conflicting perceptual information. Because not all displays have the potential to create this problem, it is proposed that information displays be subdivided into two types: analytical reasoning‐inducing displays and intuitive reasoning‐inducing displays. All information displays, even stereo displays, involve issues of cognitive engineering.

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“…Analogical reasoning appears to be one of the more fundamental thinking skills humans possess. Accordingly, Klein (1987) discussed the benefits of using analogy for problem solving, such as when there are missing data, an ill-defined problem space and ill-defined goals, and an incomplete specification of parameters; again, these are conditions under which robust decision making would occur.…”

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Training Robust Decision Making in Immersive Environments

Patterson

Pierce

Bell

et al. 2009

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making

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We provide a review and analysis of much of the published literature on decision making that is relevant to the design of immersive environments. This review draws from the basic and applied literature in order to provide insight for the design of such synthetic environments. Included in this review are articles and books cited in other works, and articles and books obtained from an Internet search. Issues discussed are (a) an overview of immersive decision environments; (b) dual-process decision making; (c) training robust intuitive decision making; (d) combining analytical and intuitive processing in immersive environments; and (e) concluding remarks. For the development of robust decision making in immersive environments, intuitive reasoning should be emphasized by creating an immersive situation and by providing for the development of automatic processing through implicit learning, with the latter reinforced by explicit thought processes. Considerations of the literature on decision making will provide insight for future design solutions for immersive decision environments.

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Applications of Analogical Reasoning

Cited by 31 publications

References 27 publications

When Is a New Thing a Good Thing? Technological Change, Product Form Design, and Perceptions of Value for Product Innovations

When Is a New Thing a Good Thing? Technological Change, Product Form Design, and Perceptions of Value for Product Innovations

Immersive stereo displays, intuitive reasoning, and cognitive engineering

Training Robust Decision Making in Immersive Environments

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