Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
David Brooks of the NY Times writes about our externalized cognitive functions. In the beginning it was only the calculator, now it is everything, even things we couldn’t think that would be outsourced:
Musical taste? I have externalized it. Now I just log on to iTunes and it tells me what I like.
I click on its recommendations, […]
The Moore’s law of storage has interesting consequences for the lifestreaming concept (especially of the MyLifeBits variety). The hypothesis is that we’ll have 10TB flash sticks in twenty years (via Jim Rossignol’s blog):
10Tb is an interesting number. That’s a megabit for every second in a year — there are roughly 10 million seconds per year. That’s enough to store a live DivX video stream […]
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 […]
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