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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
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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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Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice

TL;DR: Video technology has been vital in establishing Interaction Analysis, which depends on the technology of audiovisual recording for its primary records and on playback capability for their analysis.

The Social Shaping of Technology

TL;DR: The social shaping of technology (SST) as discussed by the authors is a growing body of research that explores how the design and implementation of technology are patterned by a range of "social" and "economic" factors as well as narrowly "technical" considerations.
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Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research

TL;DR: This article proposes distributed cognition as a new foundation for human-computer interaction, sketches an integrated research framework, and uses selections from earlier work to suggest how this framework can provide new opportunities in the design of digital work materials.
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Deficits in strategy application following frontal lobe damage in man

Tim Shallice, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1991 - 
TL;DR: A quantitative investigation of the ability to carry out a variety of cognitive tasks was performed in patients who had sustained traumatic injuries which involved prefrontal structures, and it is argued that the problem arose from an inability to reactivate after a delay previously-generated intentions when they are not directly signalled by the stimulus situation.
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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.
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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.
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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.