TY - GEN
T1 - Credibility of Stories about Design History
AU - Chaigneau, Sergio E.
AU - Coo, Cristián
AU - Soto, Vicente
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© CogSci 2011.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - There is evidence that a story about design history is credible to the extent that it coheres with object affordances. Results that support this theory were generally obtained with artificial materials learned in laboratory experiments. In the current experiment, we extend these findings to real artifacts that occur naturally outside the laboratory. We presented participants of different levels of expertise, with real artifacts that cohered to different degrees with a proposed design history, and participants rated either the artifacts’ efficiency for the proposed design history function, or the credibility of the received story about their design history. Our results showed that coherent design histories are more credible, that expertise increases the ability to judge efficiency (not surprisingly), but that expertise does not affect the ability to judge credibility to the same extent that it affects efficiency. A post hoc explanation is offered for this interaction.
AB - There is evidence that a story about design history is credible to the extent that it coheres with object affordances. Results that support this theory were generally obtained with artificial materials learned in laboratory experiments. In the current experiment, we extend these findings to real artifacts that occur naturally outside the laboratory. We presented participants of different levels of expertise, with real artifacts that cohered to different degrees with a proposed design history, and participants rated either the artifacts’ efficiency for the proposed design history function, or the credibility of the received story about their design history. Our results showed that coherent design histories are more credible, that expertise increases the ability to judge efficiency (not surprisingly), but that expertise does not affect the ability to judge credibility to the same extent that it affects efficiency. A post hoc explanation is offered for this interaction.
KW - Artifact kinds
KW - coherence
KW - design history
KW - explanation
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139459205
T3 - Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011
SP - 620
EP - 624
BT - Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011
A2 - Carlson, Laura
A2 - Hoelscher, Christoph
A2 - Shipley, Thomas F.
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science, CogSci 2011
Y2 - 20 July 2011 through 23 July 2011
ER -