Humane interfaces : questions of method and practice in cognitive technology /

Humane interfaces : questions of method and practice in cognitive technology /

Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agenda for th...

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Other Authors: Marsh, Jonathon P., Gorayska, Barbara, Mey, Jacob
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1999.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Human factors in information technology ; 13.
Subjects:
Human-computer interaction.
User interfaces (Computer systems)
Cognition.
Computer interfaces.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Methods and Practice in Cognitive Technology: A question of questions
  • PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • MIND CHANGE OR CHANGED MINDS?
  • Commentary and chapter summaries
  • Chapter 1. Investigations in Cognitive Technology: Questioning perspective
  • Chapter 2. Can We Change Our Minds? The Impact of Computer Technology on Human Cognition
  • Chapter 3. Computers and Psychosis
  • Chapter 4. The Natural and the Artificial in Language and Technology
  • Chapter 5. Understanding Users: The knowledge-level of analysis
  • AUGMENTATION, MEDIATION, INTEGRATION?
  • Commentary and chapter summaries
  • Chapter 6. The Cyborg's Dilemma: Progressive embodiment in virtual environments
  • Chapter 7. Cognitive Tools Reconsidered: From augnientation to mediation
  • Chapter 8. The Meeting Place of Cognition and Technology
  • Chapter 9. Honesty of Affordance
  • Chapter 10. The Design of Cognitive Tools
  • Chapter 11. Cyberspace Bionics
  • Chapter 12. Cognitive Space
  • PART 2: APPLIED METHODS
  • HOW DO WE CONVERT PRINCIPLES INTO VALID AND VALIDATED APPLIED METHODS?
  • Commentary and chapter summaries
  • Chapter 13. On Why the Blind Leading the Blind is a Good Idea
  • Chapter 14. Between the Idea and the Reality: The case for qualitative Research in education
  • Chapter 15. Computer Environments Designed to Promote Cognitive Change through the Development of Well Reasoned Recommendations
  • Chapter 16. Evolution of Man's Needs and Technological Progression: Pragmatic foundations for a relational coupling
  • Chapter 17. Successful Technology Must Enable People to Utilise Existing Cognitive Skills
  • Chapter 18. Palmtop Reminding Devices: Capabilites and limitations
  • Chapter 19. A User Designed Contextualisation Method for an Argumentation Support Tool
  • Chapter 20. Cognition Oriented Software Verification
  • INDEX
  • Last Page.

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