Cognitive mimetics : Main ideas

The modern era of emerging intelligent technologies necessitates the development of technologyspecific design methods. Artificial intelligence (AI), robots, and autonomous systems are expected to replace humans in many intelligent information-processing tasks. To develop such systems, however, designers need to understand what happens in the minds of the people completing such tasks today. Designers also need methods to develop intelligent technological solutions. In the present paper, we discuss cognitive mimetics as a possible tool for designers of intelligent technologies. Like biomimetics, cognitive mimetics is an analogy-based method; however, instead of looking for structural and material analogies between natural and technological solutions, cognitive mimetics searches for analogies and similarities between existent human and animal information processes and technical solutions. Thus, cognitive mimetics can be useful as an idea-generating method for designers developing intelligent technological solutions.

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