Sentence examples for representational tools from inspiring English sources

If set theory were merely representational then both of the incompatible theories could be equally useful as representational tools, though probably for different representational tasks.

It might also result from limitations on human cognitive abilities or in current-generation representational tools (Bedau 1997; Boogerd 2005; Richardson and Stephan 2007).

Sociotechnical studies, in contrast, tend to focus on how these representational tools construct the world, and how they both facilitate and constrain behavior (Borgman, 2007, p.43).

The representational tools (number systems, graphs) and objects (crates, coins, bills) used outside school become part of our thinking as we act and think with them.

Gestures, for example, have been shown to play an important role in learning interactions: they externalize imagistic aspects of thought and coordinate shared attention around representational tools during learning (Alibali & Nathan, 2012) and speech-gesture discordance indicates a learner's receptiveness to instruction (Alibali & Goldin-Meadow, 1993; Breckinridge-Church & Goldin-Meadow, 1986).

The aim of this software is to expand the SMART© analysis by providing Gallagher proximity index, cumulative searching errors, distance traveled, escape latency, Whishaw's index, permanence time in quadrants or in center-periphery, average speed per areas and floating and to provide graphic representational tools.

Participants in three experimental conditions were provided with a representational tool that could be used to construct a domain representation.

Participants in a control condition did not have access to a representational tool.

But even if the latter philosophical ambitions fail, a formal ontology can still be a most useful representational tool.

In this paper we show that it can also be a powerful representational tool for a wide variety of causal hypotheses in such domains.

The study explicated a set of five affordances of PDA technology: as a multimedia-access tool, connectivity tool, capture tool, representational tool and analytical tool.