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Theory and (Interaction) Design

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

In the insightful pasta and vinegar blog is an interesting discussion about the role of theory in interaction design based on the relevant discussion in a book by Nardi & Kaptelinin.

The problem is the one between reductionist, analytical approaches to practice and theory heavy, ethnographic approaches. The first translate easier to design and can be […]

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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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