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Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
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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.read more
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work: New challenges to systems design
Peter Carstensen,Kjeld Schmidt +1 more
TL;DR: Despite an increased level of automation within many work settings more and more work activities become complex human activities involving many people often having different areas of competence.
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Software infrastructure and design challenges for ubiquitous computing applications
TL;DR: Striving to integrate computing into everyday activities in a seamless manner is a priority for the next generation of mobile devices.
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A Primer on Aspects of Cognition for Medical Informatics
TL;DR: The authors survey literature on aspects of medical cognition and provide a set of claims that they consider to be important in medical informatics.
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Transferring Japanese kaizen activities to overseas plants in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined management practices in transferring Japanese kaizen activities to overseas plants and compared the successful cases of management practices concerning the transfer of Japanese kanizen activities with unsuccessful ones, based on the assumption that learning is situated in the context.
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Technology and institutions: living in a material world
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between technology and institutions and whether technology itself is an institution is discussed, and it is argued that social theorists need to attend better to materiality: the world of things and objects of which technical things form an important class.
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Founda- tion for Design
Stephen E. Boi,William G. Lycan,Harry C. Bunt,Christopher S. Butler,Basil Blackwell,Frank Fallside,William A. Woods,Joseph Y. Halpern,Klans Schubert,Sylvia Scribner,Michael Cole,Henk C. van Riemsdijk,Edwin William,Terry Winograd,Fernando Flores +14 more
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Terry Winograd,Fernando Flores +1 more
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,John Perry +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.