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Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2005

Assignment 16: “Distributed Cognition”


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 on paper)


Important — Role distribution: analyzers and summarizers for assignment 16:

1. JOSEPH, NICK

2. MAGILL, CHRIS

3. LE, PHONG

The “analyzers and summarizers” can do their work individually or jointly


due: Monday, March 28, 2005


1. producers: please submit by 9:00am to the class website ‡ please be on time, so the “analyzers and summarizers” can do their work!

2. analyzers/summarizers: please submit by 3:00pm to the class website


Briefly discuss the following issues:


1. what did you find

1.1. interesting about the article?

1.2. not interesting about the article?

2. what do you consider the main message of the article?

3. the article talks about “new foundations” for HCI

3.1. please discuss a couple of “old foundations” for HCI

3.2. how “new” according to your knowledge are these “new foundations”?

4. in the class on Jan 14, 2004, we showed a multi-media show about the CLever project ‡ question: which elements of distributed cognition are described in this video?

remark/hint: in case you have to rely on “distributed cognition” to remember what was shown — you can refresh your memory by watching the multi-media show again (it only takes 6 minutes) at: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/clever/index.html by activating the link “Load Flash Movie”

5. here is a quote from Neil Postman: “anatomy is not destiny: The invention of eyeglasses in the twelfth century not only made it possible to improve defective vision but suggested the idea that human beings need not accept as final either the endowments of nature nor the ravages of time. Eyeglasses refuted the belief that anatomy is destiny by putting forward the idea that our minds as well as our bodies are improvable!”

5.1. argue what the this quote has to do with the article?

5.2. do you agree with the quote?

hw16 - coyer/schram

hw16 - Nathan Balasubramanian

hw16 - Ashok/Velezmor/Alwa

hw16 - kiefer

hw16 - scotty

hw16-sandersi

hw16-torgerson

hw16-doan

hw16-byrnes


hw16-phong (analyzer)

hw16-joseph (analyzer)

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