Plans and situated actions : the problem of human-machine communication / Lucy A. Suchman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suchman, Lucille Alice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-machine systems.

Cognition and culture.

Ethnophilosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 203 pages : illustrations ;c22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Summary:

This lively and original book offers a provocative critique of the dominant assumptions regarding human action and communication which underlie recent research in machine intelligence. Lucy Suchman argues that the planning model of interaction favoured by the majority of AI researchers does not take sufficient account of the situatedness of most human social behaviour. The problems that can arise as a result are pertinently, and often amusingly, illustrated by the careful analysis of a recorded interaction between novice users and an intelligent machine, whose design has failed to accommodate essential resources of successful human communication.

"Plans and Situated Actions" presents a compelling case for the re-examination of current models of underlying interface design. Lucy Suchman's proposals for a fresh characterization of human-computer interaction which also incorporates recent insights from the social sciences provides a challenge that everyone interested in machine intelligence will need seriously to consider.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 190-197.

ISBN:

0521331374

0521337399

OCLC:

15429358