{"pk":28207,"title":"Predicting Cognitive Difficulty of the Deductive Mastermind Game with Dynamic Epistemic Logic Models","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Deductive Mastermind is a deductive reasoning game that isimplemented in the online educational game system Math Gar-den. A good understanding of the difficulty of Deductive Mas-termind game instances is essential for optimizing the learningexperience of players. The available empirical difficulty rat-ings, based on speed and accuracy, provide robust estimationsbut do not explain why certain game instances are easy or hard.In previous work a logic-based model was proposed that suc-cessfully predicted these difficulty ratings. We add to this workby providing a model based on a different logical principle—that of eliminating hypotheses (dynamic epistemic logic) in-stead of reasoning by cases (analytical tableaux system)—thatcan predict the empirical difficulty ratings equally well. Weshow that the informational content of the different feedbacksgiven in game instances is a core predictor for cognitive dif-ficulty ratings and that this is irrespective of the specific logicused to formalize the game.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"deductive reasoning; mastermind; educationalgame; cognitive difficulty; logical analysis; computationalmodeling; dynamic epistemic logic"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93k0k49d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bonan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zhao","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Iris","middle_name":"","last_name":"van de Pol","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Maartje","middle_name":"","last_name":"Raijmakers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""},{"first_name":"Jakub","middle_name":"","last_name":"Szymanik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Amsterdam","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28207/galley/17866/download/"}]}