Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine CommunicationThis lively and original book offers a provocative critique of the dominant assumptions regarding human action and communication which underlie recent research in machine intelligence. Lucy Suchman argues that the planning model of interaction favoured by the majority of AI researchers does not take sufficient account of the situatedness of most human social behaviour. The problems that can arise as a result are pertinently, and often amusingly, illustrated by the careful analysis of a recorded interaction between novice users and an intelligent machine, whose design has failed to accommodate essential resources of successful human communication. Plans and Situated Actions presents a compelling case for the re-examination of current models underlying interface design. Lucy Suchman's proposals for a fresh characterisation of human-computer interaction which also incorporates recent insights from the social sciences provides a challenge that everyone interested in machine intelligence will seriously need to consider. |
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It's a really old-fashioned book. The language is so hard to grasp. The concepts are not concrete.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Interactive artifacts | 5 |
Plans | 27 |
Situated actions | 49 |
Communicative resources | 68 |
Case and methods | 98 |
Humanmachine communication | 118 |
Conclusion | 178 |
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| Title | Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Learning in doing |
| Author | Lucy A. Suchman |
| Contributors | John Seely Brown, Christian Heath, Roy Pea |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0521337399, 9780521337397 |
| Length | 203 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Computers / Natural Language Processing Computers / Programming / General |
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