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Making TRACS: The Diagrammatic Design of a Double-Sided Deck

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TRACS: Tool for Research on Adaptive Cognitive Strategies, is a new family of card games played with a special deck. Each card in the deck is a double-sided diagram, where the back gives a clue to the front. Compared to standard card games, this clue/truth structure makes TRACS more tractable to theoretical investigations in the lab and more typical of practical situations in the world. Here I present the design of the deck and discuss some research results.

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  1. The MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA, 01730-1420, USA

    Kevin Burns

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  1. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Alan F. Blackwell

  2. Clayton School of IT Monash University, 3800, Australia

    Kim Marriott

  3. Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University, Japan

    Atsushi Shimojima

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Burns, K. (2004). Making TRACS: The Diagrammatic Design of a Double-Sided Deck. In: Blackwell, A.F., Marriott, K., Shimojima, A. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2980. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25931-2_34

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