Post-cognitivist HCI: second-wave theories

  • Authors:
  • Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie Nardi;Susanne Bødker;John Carroll;Jim Hollan;Edwin Hutchins;Terry Winograd

  • Affiliations:
  • Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA;Aarhus University;Virginia Tech;UC San Diego;UC San Diego;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

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.