Abstract Reasoning

From Causes to Remedies

Abstract Reasoning is a methodology for visual analytics (VA) researchers and practitioners to deliberate many different possible causal relations. This page is for supporting the reasoning about the causal relations between causes and remedies. For reasoning about the causal relations between symptoms and causes and between remedies and side-effects, please visit the corresponding pages.

How to Use the Adjacency Matrix Below?

  • Consider a discovered cause and identify its corresponding abstract entity on the left.
  • Look across the row horizontally and see the blue symbols for likely remedies.
  • Check to see whether any of these remedies may be applicable to the problem concerned and is feasible to implement. You may use the list of Concrete Entities as prompts.
  • Take the second scan of the row to consider the possible and rare remedies.