On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Chuck Goodwin wrote:
> For an excellent study of the tensions between planning and situated
> practice see
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> Suchman, Lucy A. (1987). Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human
> Machine Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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> Just to throw one more extremely interesting book into the pot that is
> boiling here you might take a look at Ed Hutchins analysis of navigation (I
> imagine that figuring out how to get from one place to another constitutes
> a prototypical example of both planning and situated action) which has very
> clear and powerful demonstrations of distributed cogniton, the importance
> of historically shaped cognitive artifacts, such as maps, and analysis of
> how different cultures (Micronesian and Western navigators) construct quite
> different tools to solve a common problem.
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> Hutchins, Edwin (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
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> Chuck
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