Abstract:
The type of principles which cognitive engineers need to design better
work environments are principles which explain interactivity and distributed
cognition: how human agents interact with themselves and others, their
work spaces, and the resources and constraints that populate those spaces.
A first step in developing these principles is to clarify the fundamental
concepts of environment, coordination, and behavioural function. Using
simple examples, I review changes the distributed perspective forces on
these basic notions.
Keywords
coordination, distributed cognition, environment, function of action,
interactivity, workflow
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