Agency and situatedness in cognitive engineering

  • Authors:
  • Christian Stary

  • Affiliations:
  • Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Highly adaptive technologies are becoming common use: Mobile applications are situation-aware, web applications are personalized, and search engines follow individual needs etc. Implementations of that kind frequently follow certain models of cognitive processes and situations of use. How do those models look like, how do user profiles or functional roles come into being? How can situation awareness be achieved? Looking across disciplines and applications might help to find common grounds or modeling guidelines. Reviewing existing approaches shed light on conceptual frameworks, basic assumptions, models and design patterns arising from system developments leading to adaptable or adaptive systems. Designers could learn about possible models of agency and situatedness, their disciplinary ground and application context. Agency and situatedness are constructs influencing design, either implicitly or in a transparent, traceable way.