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Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication

Lucy Suchman
- 15 Dec 1987 - 
- Vol. 103, Iss: 3, pp 424
TLDR
This paper presents a meta-modelling architecture for human-machine communication that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and therefore expensive and expensive process of designing and implementing communication systems.
Abstract
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Interactive artefacts 3. Plans 4. Situated actions 5. Communicative resources 6. Case and methods 7. Human-machine communication 8. Conclusion References Indices.

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Why Can't I Find Newton's Third Law? Case Studies of Students' Use of the Web as a Science Resource

TL;DR: Detailed accounts of how students use the Web as a science resource are provided to illuminate how the different levels of domain knowledge, search expertise, and situational interest impact students' ability to find useful and relevant information on the Web.
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The Search for Synergy: Interrelating Medical Work and Patient Care Information Systems

TL;DR: This article explores the way IT and professional work can be interrelated synergistically and finds that IT can bring true process support to health care when taking the two principles discussed here into account.
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From thinking to tinkering: the grassroots of strategic information systems

TL;DR: Rather than looking for standard models in the business strategy literature, SISs should be looked for in the theory and practice of organizational learning and innovation, both incremental and radical.
Dissertation

Modeling human-machine systems :on modes, error, and patterns of interaction

Asaf Degani
TL;DR: This research attacked the mode confusion problem by developing a modeling framework (Ofan) to describe human interaction with mode-based systems.
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

TL;DR: It is argued that what AI needs is not so much a hermeneutic approach as a better appreciation of biology and psychology.
Book

Situations and Attitudes

Jon Barwise, +1 more
TL;DR: Barwise and Perry as discussed by the authors tackle the slippery subject of "meaning, " a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians, and they tackle it in this book.
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Situations and Attitudes.

TL;DR: Barwise and Perry as discussed by the authors tackle the slippery subject of ''meaning, '' a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians, and they tackle it in this book.