Cognitive DistanceA book by Izaias Cavalcanti Free PDF

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. 01The Distance Problem
  3. 02How Systems Drift Away From Human Thinking
  4. 03Mental Models and the Architecture of Understanding
  5. 04Usability Revisited: When Easy Does Not Mean Understandable
  6. 05Accessibility and the Hidden Dimension of Cognitive Barriers
  7. 06Measuring the Invisible: Detecting Cognitive Distance in Real Systems
  8. 07Design Assumptions and the Architecture of Misunderstanding
  9. 08Designing for Alignment: Reducing Cognitive Distance
  10. 09Artificial Intelligence and the Expanding Distance
  11. 10Systems, Institutions, and the Distance Between People and Digital Power
  12. 11A Practical Framework for Evaluating Cognitive Distance
  13. 12Toward a New Paradigm in Human-Computer Interaction
  14. 13Closing the Distance
  15. About the Author
  16. References66 works cited

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