A new era in human computer interaction: the challenges of technology as a social proxy

  • Authors:
  • Rogerio DePaula

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for the LifeLong Learning and Design, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Latin American conference on Human-computer interaction
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

As computer technologies become more pervasive new challengers will emerge, requiring approaches that reach out beyond a single mind interacting with an isolated technology in a social, cultural, and historical vacuum. This paper briefly presents new tendencies in HCI to studying the human interactions mediated by technologies in the context of their social practices, and a prominent framework, distributed cognition, as a new theoretical underpinning for HCI. To illustrate the challenges of this new context, findings from a three-year-long effort are discussed. Final remarks and considerations are then highlighted.