[Abstract]

Meta-Cognitive Approach to Finding of Lost Properties

Yukio Ohsawa
Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan



It is difficult to find lost properties, because a loss occurs when we do not pay much attention to objects we possess. The situation is sometimes quite subtle, especially when the object is linked to secrets of one's belonging organization, therefore one tends to hesitate to go over to see a psychologist for analyzing one's dream, or to be treated with other methods requiring the assist of someone else. In this paper I show two cases where a person lost a property and found it at niche places - where the object had been released unexpectedly and was hard to be discovered. From these cases, we show the usefulness of linking acts in multiple and parallel task scenarios, where one tries to link things in one's eager/urgent and routine activities via the lost property. In this method, metacognitive visualization of the lost situation sometimes work.

Prof. Ohsawa could not come here because of heavy job in his university. Dr. Hao Wang made a presentation instead.