Cognition and technology : co-existence, convergence, and co-evolution / edited by Barbara Goryaska, Jacob L. Mey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goryaska, Barbara.

Mey, Jacob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-machine systems.

Human-computer interaction.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

vi, 369 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline - a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new areas for future investigations. The collection contains an extensive CT agenda identifying many as yet unsolved, CT-related, design issues. An exciting new development is the concept of 'natural technology'. Some examples of natural technologies are discussed and the merits of empirical investigations (into what they are and how they develop), of interest to cognitive scientists and designers of new (corrective, digital) technologies, are pointed out. Another distinctive feature of the collection is that it provides examples of scientists' tools; important, too, is its emphasis on ethics in tool design. The collection ends with a provocative coda (any responses can appear in the new, annual, CT forum of the Pragmatics and Cognition journal). The collection will appeal to all scientists, humanists and professionals interested in the interface between human cognitive processes and the technologies that augment them.

Contents:

Cognition and Technology

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Introduction

References

Part I. Theoretical issues

Towards a science of the bio-technological mind

Note

Language as a cognitive technology

Notes

Relevance, goal management and cognitive technology

Robots as cognitive tools

The origins of narrative

The semantic web

Part II. Applications

Cognition and body image

Looking under the rug

BodyMoves and tacit knowing

Gaze aversion and the primacy of emotional dysfunction in autism

Appendix 1

Communicating sequential activities

Part III. Coda

Martin Luther King and the "ghost in the machine"

Appendix: Idea discovery with color

"The end of the Dreyfus affair"

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612254345

9781423766452

1423766458

9781282254343

1282254340

9789027295064

9027295069

OCLC:

65666884