Discourse, Tools and Reasoning - Essays on Situated Cognition (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

Not long ago, projections of how office technologies would revolutionize the production of documents in a high-tech future carriedmany promises. The paper less office and the seamless and problem-free sharing of texts and other work materials among co-workers werejust around the corner, we were told. To anyone who has been involved in putting together a volume of the present kind, such forecasts will be met with considerable skepticism, if not outright distrust. The diskette, the email, the fax, the net, and all the other forms of communication that are now around are powerful assets, but they do not in any way reduce the flow of paper or the complexity of coordinating activities involved in producing an artifact such as a book. Instead, the reverse seems to be true. Obviously, the use of such tools requires considerable skill at the center of coordination, to borrow an expression from a chapter in this volume. As editors, we have been fortunate to have Ms. Lotta Strand, Linkoping University, at the center of the distributed activity that producing this volume has required over the last few years. With her considerable skill and patience, Ms. Strand and her work provide a powerful illustration of the main thrust of most of the chapters in this volume: Practice is a coordination of thinking and action, and many things had to be kept in mind during the production of this volume."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	NATO ASI Subseries F:, 160
Release date:	2001
First published:	1997
Editors:	Lauren B. Resnick • Roger Saljoe • Clotilde Pontecorvo • Barbara Burge
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	482
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-63511-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Human-computer interaction Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	3-540-63511-4
Barcode:	9783540635116

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