Projected cognition: capturing intent in descriptions of complex interaction

  • Authors:
  • William Edmondson;Russell Beale

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In a study of activity and usage of comparatively complex configurations - where users have multiple screens and/or multiple computers - we have noticed that accounts of what is being observed and reported are tricky to unify within a coherent framework. In this paper we look in detail at one such setting, where a complex office configuration has the machines well spread out in a structure designed by an individual for themselves. The layout also permits pairs of users to work collaboratively and clear cases of co-operative working are observed. In order to describe this successfully, we have extended the distributed cognition approach to capture notions of intent. This Projected Cognition, as we have termed it, allows us to provide a richer description of intent, activity and context.