RES: RES: [xmca] Interface as tool and sign

["Joao" <jbmartin@sercomtel.com.br>]

ok, what name of your book?

Joao

-----Mensagem original-----
De: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] Em nome
de Andy Blunden
Enviada em: sábado, 1 de maio de 2010 00:34
Cc: 'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity'
Assunto: Re: RES: [xmca] Interface as tool and sign

ha, ha. Sorry Joao, this is just an aricle off my web page. 
It is excerpted from my book where you will find the 
bibliography referred to in the text. But for that you have 
to buy the book. I can tell you what any of the citations 
are if you can't guess.

Andy

Joao wrote:
> Andy, this text dont have bibliography???
> 
> Joao 
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] Em
nome
> de Andy Blunden
> Enviada em: sexta-feira, 30 de abril de 2010 21:48
> Para: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Assunto: Re: [xmca] Interface as tool and sign
> 
> Although Vygotsky definitely did talk about "tool and sign" 
> as though there was a dichtomy here, this was in the days 
> before personal computers and so on. I see these as 
> archetypes, not categories as such. Consider the following 
> series of cultural means of opening a door: crow-bar, 
> handle, key, swipe card, PIN code, password, smile to the 
> doorkeeper.
> 
> See http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/vygotskys-critique.htm
> 
> Andy
> 
> Jon Olav H. Eikenes wrote:
>> Dear XMCA
>>
>> I am currently doing research on (human-computer) interfaces and try
>> to analyze them as mediating artifacts. By drawing on social semiotics
>> I see the interface as a 'sign' - a multimodal text that employs
>> semiotic resources for making meaning. However, I also see the
>> interface as a tool or instrument for people in carrying out actions
>> (such as producing music or writing documents) - by drawing on
>> Vygotsky and Leont'ev. Jay Lemke mentioned to me that there already
>> have been discussions in XMCA about the differences and similarities
>> of tools and signs. I have consulted the archives and found many
>> interesting references. However, I wonder if anyone know any
>> literature that addresses how something may function both as sign and
>> as tool at the same time.
>>
>> Jon Olav
>> _________________________________
>> Jon Olav Eikenes
>> PhD student
>> www.navimationresearch.net
>> Oslo School of Architecture and Design
>> www.aho.no
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