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March/April 2004 (Vol. 19, No. 2)
pp. 78-80
The Janus Principle
Robert R. Hoffman, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Gavan Lintern, General Dynamics
Susan Eitelman, CHI Systems
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The Roman mythological god Janus was said to bring all things into the world, from the seasons to the ways of civilization. He was symbolized as a two-faced god, one youthful, the other elderly. The authors find here an allegory to the apprentice-expert continuum in knowledge acquisition, so they've named a principle of human-centered computing after Janus. This principle deals with the distinction between performance and training, and its implications for intelligent technologies.
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Citation:
Robert R. Hoffman, Gavan Lintern, Susan Eitelman,
"The Janus Principle,"
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
vol. 19,
no. 2,
pp. 78-80,
Mar/Apr,
2004
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