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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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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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