Cognitive Science
and Technology
Social, cultural, and distributed elements of cognition
Richard Alterman
Lecture 1: Distributed Cognition.
Required reading:
Hutchins,
E. (1993) Learning to navigate. In Chaiklin, S. and Lave, J., editors,
Understanding Practice, pages 35–63.
Norman, D. (1988).
Chapter 1, The Psychology of Everyday Things. Basic Books.
Additional
readings:
Hutchins,
E. (1995). How a cockpit remembers its
speed. Cognitive Science, 19:265-288.
Hutchins,
E. (1995) Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press
Kirsh,
D. Complementary strategies: Why we use our hands when we think. Proceedings
of the Seventheenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
212-217. 1995.
Perry, M. (2003) Distributed Cognition. In J.M.
Carroll (editor), HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Lecture 2: Acting in the world
Required
Cole, M., & Engeström, Y. (1993) A cultural
historic approach to distributed cognition.
In G. Salomon (Ed.), Distributed Cognitions, 1-46.
Additional
readings:
Alterman,
R., Zito-Wolf, R., and Carpenter, T. Pragmatic Action.
Cognitive Science, 22:1, 53-105,
1998.
Kaptelinin
V. & Nardi, B. (2006) Activity
theory in a nutshell. In Acting with technology.
Lewis,
D. (1969) Convention, reprinted (2002) Blackwell Publishing.
Alterman,
R. and
Cognitive Science, 25(4) 611-657,
2001.
Agre,P. and Chapman, D. (1990) What are plans for? Robotics
and Autonomous Systems, (6) 17-34.
Lecture 3: Intersubjectivity, face-to-face
Required readings:
Clark, H. and Brennan, S. (1991). Grounding in
Communication. In Resnick, Levine, and
Teasly editors, Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition, 127-149.
Additional reading:
Clark,
H. and Schaefer, E. (1989) Contributing to discourse.
Cognitive Science 13, 259-294.
Sacks,
H., Schegloff, E., and Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the
organization of turn-taking in conversation.
Language, 50:696-735.
Schegloff,
E. “Repair after Next Turn: The last
structurally provided defense of intersubjectivity in conversation”. American
Journal of Sociology 97(5) 1295-1345.
Tomasello, M., Kruger, A., Ratner, H. (1993)
Cultural Learning. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 16, 495-552.
Lecture 4: Intersubjectivity, mediated
Required readings:
Alterman, R. Representation, Interaction, and
Intersubjectivity. Cognitive Science,
31(5) 815-841, 2007.
Additional reading:
Olson, J. Teasley, S., Covi, L., and Olson, G. (2002) The (currently) unique advantages of
collocated work. In Hinds & Kiesler (editors) Distributed Work, MIT Press.
B.P.H. Lee. (2001) Mutual knowledge, background
knowledge and shared beliefs: Their roles in establishing common ground.
Journal of Pragmatics, 33(1):21–44, 2001.
Schmidt, K. and Simone,
C. (1996): "Coordination mechanisms: Towards a Conceptual Foundation of
CSCW Systems Design", Computer Supported Cooperative Work 5, p. 155-200.
Lecture 5: The semantics and (flow of) the interaction
Required
reading:
Kirsh, D. (2004)
Metacognition, Distributed Cognition, and Visual Design, In Gardinfors, P and
Johannsson, P., Cognition, Education, and Communication and Technology.
Additional readings:
Hutchins, E., Hollan, J., and Norman, D. (1986).
Direct Manipulation Interfaces. In Norman, D. an Draper, S. (Eds.), User
Centered System Design, LEA, 87-124.
Carroll, J.M. and Rosson, M.B., Paradox of the
active user. Interfacing thought: Cognitive aspects of human-computer
interaction, 80-111, 1987.
Krisler, B. and Alterman,
R. Training towards mastery. NordiCHI, 239-248, 2008
Assessment
Students
will be assessed on the basis of their written paper (approx. 5 pages
double-spaced) and their participation during lecture and seminar.
Seminars
During
the seminars, there will be discussion and some practice of methods.
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