Computer-based problem

Abstract

In our digital world, traditional and non-traditional computerbased activities – programming, document management and information retrieval – seem to move apart. Problem solving methods in case of traditional activities use in-depth metacognitive approaches, while those in case of non-traditional ones represent almost exclusively less efficient, superficial metacognitive approaches. Research findings clearly indicate that this duality and the widespread use of superficial approaches lead to a very large number of faulty documents, to wrong conclusions, and to unreasonably high human and computer resource requirements in document creation and processing. It is therefore justified to draw up a system of computer-based activities and computer-based problem-solving methods. The authors have formulated a unified system which covers all the approaches to computer-based problem solving, and is, at the same time, compatible with other systems already accepted in other fields of science. They have identified existing, so far isolated systems describing traditional activities of computer-based systems, have added nontraditional computer activities, and finally put all these into a universally accepted problem solving system, thus completing and completing and complementing it with the new forms of activity.