David Kirsh

University of California, San Diego — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

34h-index9.5kcitations154works0.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Action Observation and Synchronization(15), Design Education and Practice(14), Embodied and Extended Cognition(14), Child and Animal Learning Development(10), Cognitive Science and Mapping(10)

Publications154 total

Humans Select Subgoals That Balance Immediate and Future Cognitive Costs During Physical Assembly
Cognitive Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Reimagining space: how activity space explains human behaviour in buildings
Architectural Science Review·2025Open Access
What Did My Car Say? Impact of Autonomous Vehicle Explanation Errors and Driving Context On Comfort, Reliance, Satisfaction, and Driving Confidence
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Predicting Trust In Autonomous Vehicles: Modeling Young Adult Psychosocial Traits, Risk-Benefit Attitudes, And Driving Factors With Machine Learning
2025Open Access
Predicting Trust In Autonomous Vehicles: Modeling Young Adult Psychosocial Traits, Risk-Benefit Attitudes, And Driving Factors With Machine Learning
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Developing Situational Awareness for Joint Action with Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly
Cognitive Science·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Atmosphere, mood, and scientific explanation
Frontiers in Computer Science·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Estimating the planning complexity of visual subgoals
Journal of Vision·2023Open Access
Explainable AI And Visual Reasoning: Insights From Radiology
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The Cost of Knowing: How Obstacle Alerts Reduce Walking Speeds of Augmented White Cane Users
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Quantified Buildings and Modelling
2021
Kirsh, D. Problem Solving and Situated Cognition. In Robbins, P. and Aydede, M. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp 264-306. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2021Open Access
Kirsh, D. When is Information Explicitly Represented? The Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. (1990) pp. 340-365. Re-issued Oxford University Press. 1992.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2021Open Access
Visual scoping operations for physical assembly
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021Open Access
Connecting perceptual and procedural abstractions in physical construction
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2021Open Access
Interactive Skill in Scrabble
Psychology Press eBooks·2020· 51 citedOpen Access
Time Course of Creativity in Dance
Frontiers in Psychology·2020Open Access
Mental Imagery - Eyes Open and Shut.
Cognitive Science·2020
Learning to build physical structures better over time.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2020· 6 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Paul P. Maglio(5), Philip Robbins(4), T. Todd Elvins(3), David R. Nadeau(3), Leslie Lenert(3), William G. Griswold(3), Theodore C. Chan(3), Fred Adams(2), Joachim Lyon(2), Hendrik Knoche(2), Rina Schul(2), J.P. Killeen(2), James D. Hollan(1), Edwin Hutchins(1), William J. Clancey(1), Shaun Gallagher(1), Robert A. Wilson(1), Robert D. Rupert(1), Mark Rowlands(1), Chris Eliasmith(1)