Post-cognitivist HCI
Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie Anna Nardi, Susanne Bødker, John M. Carroll, Jim Hollan, Edwin L. Hutchins, Terry Winograd · 2003
Historically, the dominant paradigm in HCI, when it appeared as a field in early 80s, was information processing ("cognitivist") psychology. In recent decades, as the focus of research moved beyond information processing to include how the use of technology emerges in social, cultural and organizational contexts, a variety of conceptual frameworks have been proposed as candidate theoretical foundations for "second-wave" HCI and CSCW. The purpose of this panel is to articulate similarities and differences between some of the leading "post-cognitivist" theoretical perspectives: language/ action, activity theory, and distributed cognition.