Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
Smashing magazine has a list of methods that a designer can use in order to focus on users. There is a fairly wide array of methods most of which can be used by someone inexperienced in ergonomics. One most note though that methods like cognitive task analysis or activity analysis cannot be used without extensive […]
I’ve been re-reading Winograd’s “A language/action perspective on the design of cooperative work” from 1988 and I’m amazed at how relevant it still is. It presents the work that Winograd and Flores did using speech act theory to capture the structure of cooperative work. Their approach is based on the notion that workflow has an intrinsic […]
Some notes on Spinuzzi’s excellent book “Tracing Genres Through Organizations” (MIT Press, 1993), written on my desktop computer as the laptop ist kaputt.
Spinuzzi’s work is very close to what I did in my PhD albeit from a different perspective. He follows what I perceive to be a postmodern approach to interpreting work, that attempts to […]
The use of Complexity Science to serve the study of sociotechnical systems began in the 90s, mainly through the work of Pavard (2003) and the COSI Training Network. This line of work was pursued by colleague and friend Nikos Zarboutis, who presented this paper co-authored with Peter Wright in 2006. Because of my military tour […]
This interesting paper by Goodwin is concerned in the ways professionals perceive and structure their environment.
…investigates the discursive practices used by members of a profession to shape events in the phenomenal environment they focus their attention upon, the domain of their professional scrutiny,into the objects of knowledge that become the insignia of their […]
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 […]
Gender and Design Cultures in Information and Communication Technologies (Oudshoorn et al., 2004)
 This paper describes the design of two “digital cities” in the mid-nineties, one in the public and one in the private sector. The focus is on how the designers’ conception of the user is shaped by their own identity. Both projects aimed at […]
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 […]
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