Eleven axes of "understandability":
* Static vs. dynamic
* Discrete vs. continuous
* Separable vs. interactive
* Sequential vs. simultaneous
* Homogeneous vs. heterogeneous
* Single vs. multiple representations
* Mechanism vs. organicism
* Linear vs. nonlinear
* Universal vs. conditional
* Regular vs. irregular
* Surface vs. deep
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Content towards the right...encourages reductivist explanations and defensive responses to new "complexifying" information.
Feltovich, P. J., R. R. Hoffman, D. Woods, and A. Roesler. 2004. “Keeping It Too Simple: How the Reductive Tendency Affects Cognitive Engineering.” IEEE Intelligent Systems 19 (3): 90–94.