Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
This is a collection of Chaitin’s more accessible articles. Most of these are an attempt to define his quasi-empirical epistemology, which is tries to be a dialectical transcendence of idealism and empiricism.
To present it he uses some very interesting quotes:
According to Plato, the world is rationally understandable because it has structure. And the universe has […]
In this article Kirsh tries to re-define the notion of task space, in order to move it away from the classic abstract symbolic notion proposed by Newell & Simon (1972). The whole problem stems from a dualistic perspective that seperates agent from environment.
The first move was through notions external and distributed cognition that extended the […]
In this article, Spear proposes the adoption of JIT-like methods in health care. He states that although medical staff are educated and competent, accidents are frequent because of “ambiguities†in the work system. The problem stems partly from the system’s complexity, which creates many opportunities for ambiguity, in terms of both how an individual’s work […]
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