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Analysing Human-Computer Interaction As Distributed Cognition: The Resources Model (1999)
| Venue: | Human Computer Interaction |
| Citations: | 14 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Wright99analysinghuman-computer,
author = {Peter Wright and Bob Fields and Michael Harrison},
title = {Analysing Human-Computer Interaction As Distributed Cognition: The Resources Model},
journal = {Human Computer Interaction},
year = {1999},
volume = {15},
pages = {1--42}
}
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Abstract
In this paper, we present a new approach to interaction modelling based on the concept of information resource. The approach is inspired by recent distributed cognition (DC) literature but develops a model that applies specifically to human-computer interaction (HCI) modelling. There are of course many approaches to modelling HCI and the motivation of this paper is not to offer yet another approach. Rather our motivation is that the recent developments in DC are so obviously relevant to HCI modelling and design yet the ideas have lacked visibility in the HCI community. By providing a model whose concepts are rooted in DC concepts we hope to achieve this visibility. In addition, we hope to provide the foundation for a programme of research that extends the DC analysis of single user systems presented here to larger units of analysis more familiar to CSCW and DC research. DC research identifies resources for action as central to the interaction between people and technologies, but it sto...
