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EPSRC Reference: GR/K95246/01
Title: WHAT PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK DO ENGINEERING DESIGNERS RECEIVE & HOW CAN IT BE IMPROVED
Principal Investigator: Busby, Dr J
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Department: Computer Integrated Manufacture Inst
Organisation: Cranfield University
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 10 November 1995 Ends: 09 November 1996 Value (£): 7,023
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Design Processes
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The fellowship will investigate how engineers learn about their success in design tasks. It will determine the cues they process when receiving feedback, how they assemble these cues and make inferences from them, and the effects such inferences have on their behaviour. It will assess the rationality of these inferences, determining whether they are subject to the biases characteristically associated with people drawing conclusions from uncertain data. And it will test whether the feedback has the characteristics that, in experimental research, are associated with good diagnostic and motivational content. Thereafter the research will explore how feedback can be improved by helping overcome its limitation.
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