Gray, Wayne (1999)

Gray, W. D. (1999). Scaled Worlds: Tractable, Realistic, and Engaging? Paper presented at the Scaled Worlds '99: Inaugural International Synthetic Task Development Conference, Athens, GA.

Scaled Worlds: Tractable, Realistic, and Engaging?

From the Talk

Beginning with a Complex, Real-World Task

• A scaled world abstracts certain functional relationships, while paring away others
• Can be multiple scaled worlds of the same complex, real-world task that differ on which functional relationships are abstracted and which are pared away
• The nature of the research question determines what is abstracted and what is pared away