Abstract
The chapters in this volume bear witness to the common belief of the authors that visualizing argumentation facilitates a number of processes that their users, professionals or learners, engage in. These processes, we surmise, can often be typified as cooperative’ problem solving and there are many good reasons to assume that visualizing argumentation can facilitate this process. Unfortunately, there are other good reasons to assume that the reverse may occur as well. Argument visualization can quite effectively hinder problem solving. In this chapter we try to reach a better understanding of this “mixed blessing” of argument visualization and to formulate a number of recommendations on how to use it more profitably.
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van Bruggen, J.M., Boshuizen, H.P.A., Kirschner, P.A. (2003). A Cognitive Framework for Cooperative Problem Solving with Argument Visualization. In: Kirschner, P.A., Buckingham Shum, S.J., Carr, C.S. (eds) Visualizing Argumentation. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0037-9_2
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