Assignment 9
New Foundations for Human-Computer Interaction Research
Due: Wednesday, Feb 20
paper: Hollan, J., Hutchins, E., & Kirsch, D. (2001) "Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research." In J. M. Carroll (Ed.) Human-Computer Interaction in the New Millennium, ACM Press, New York, pp. 75-94.
distributed-cognition-toward-a.pdf
Important:
with this assignment we split the members of the class into:
- producers (students giving answers)
- analyzers and summarizers (students evaluating the answers from the other students)
we will rotate these roles - for this assignment, I suggest that
- John deRiggi
- Jonathan Marbach
are the "analyzers and summarizers"! The "analyzers and summarizers" can do their work individually or jointly
- producers: please submit by 10:00am to the class website - please be on time, so the "analyzers and summarizers" can do their work!
- analyzers/summarizers: please submit by 2:00pm to the class website
Briefly discuss the following issues:
- what did you find
- interesting about the article?
- not interesting about the article?
- what do you consider the main message of the article?
- are themes discussed in the article which you would like to know more about?
- please describe briefly your understanding of
- distributed cognition?
- ethnography
- active representations (which is the most important example you can think of?)
- in future work environments people will pursue their goals in collaboraiton with elements of the social and material world
- the article talks about "new foundations" for HCI
- please discuss a couple of "old foundations" for HCI
- how "new" according to your knowledge are these "new foundations"?
- do you have any ideas how this research could / should be extended based on your own knowledge and experience?