CGSC 1001 Midterm: Cognitive Science exam 2 review.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Frederic Davis

Document Summary

Basic science: a lot of basic science is done with no thought to practical application. Human-computer interaction (hci: some of the earliest ai programs were expert systems , which simulated how an expert thinks. Diagnosis (you say i got a cough, the computer says what you have in seconds). Medical information retrieval (in the past, what treatments worked and what didn"t). Interpretation (gets software to look at scans(medical images), and has the al try and see abnormalities): problems with diagnosis- many are not used because they do not fit in with how the medical establishment works. But, there not excited when uploading it into the computer program. Or you might have problems because something"s are not put into the computer at all. Is about the interface between humans and computers, and how to design and make better, which work and why (ex: touchpad on computer)