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Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind

4th International Conference, CT 2001 Coventry, UK, August 6-9, 2001 Proceedings

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Meurig Beynon

    1. The Empirical Modeling Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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  2. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

    1. Adaptive Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield Herts, UK

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  3. Kerstin Dautenhahn

    1. Adaptive Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield Herts, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2117)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (43 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Cognitive engineering

    1. Cognitive Technology: Tool or Instrument?

      • Barbara Gorayska, Jonathon P. Marsh, Jacob L. Mey
      Pages 1-16

  3. Design Spaces & Virtual Environments

    1. Natural-Born Cyborgs?

      • Andy Clark
      Pages 17-24

  5. Design Spaces & Virtual Environments

    1. Can Social Interaction Skills Be Taught by a Social Agent? The Role of a Robotic Mediator in Autism Therapy

      • Iain Werry, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Bernard Ogden, William Harwin
      Pages 57-74

    2. The Cognitive Effects of Delayed Visual Feedback: Working Memory Disruption While Driving in Virtual Environments

      • Philip N. Day, Patrik O’Brian Holt, George T. Russell
      Pages 75-82

    3. Embodiment, Perception, and Virtual Reality

      • Melanie Chan
      Pages 83-94

    4. Freeing Machines from Cartesian Chains

      • René J. A. te Boekhorst
      Pages 95-108

  6. Design Spaces & Virtual Environments

    1. The Relationship between the Arrangement of Participants and the Comfortableness of Conversation in HyperMirror

      • Osamu Morikawa, Takanori Maesako
      Pages 109-116

    2. Mapping the Semantic Asymmetries of Virtual and Augmented Reality Space

      • Frank Biocca, David Lamas, Ping Gai, Robert Brady
      Pages 117-122

    3. Presence and the Role of Activity Theory in Understanding: How Students Learn in Virtual Learning Environments

      • Anne Jelfs, Denise Whitelock
      Pages 123-129

  7. Human Activity & Human Computing

    1. Experiment as an Instrument of Innovation: Experience and Embodied Thought

      • David C. Gooding
      Pages 130-140

  8. Human Activity & Human Computing

    1. Can We Afford It? Issues in Designing Transparent Technologies

      • John Halloran
      Pages 141-148

    2. “The End of the (Dreyfus) Affair”:(Post)Heideggerian Meditations on Man, Machine, and Meaning

      • Syed Mustafa Ali
      Pages 149-156

    3. New Visions of Old Models

      • Igor Chimir, Mark Horney
      Pages 157-163

  9. Human Activity & Human Computing

    1. Abstract Victorian Data Processing - When Software Was People

      • Martin Campbell-Kelly
      Pages 164-164

    2. On the Meaning of Computer Programs

      • Josh Tenenberg
      Pages 165-174

    3. Sense from a Sea of Resources: Tools to Help People Piece Information Together

      • Aran Lunzer, Yuzuru Tanaka
      Pages 175-189
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Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind Cognitive Technology is the study of the impact of technology on human cog- tion, the externalization of technology from the human mind, and the pragmatics of tools. It promotes the view that human beings should develop methods to p- dict, analyse, and optimize aspects of human-tool relationship in a manner that respects human wholeness. In particular the development of new tools such as virtual environments, new computer devices, and software tools has been too little concerned with the impacts these technologies will have on human cog- tive and social capacities. Our tools change what we are and how we relate to the world around us. They need to be developed in a manner that both extends human capabilities while ensuring an appropriate cognitive t between organism and instrument. The principal theme of the CT 2001 conference and volume is declared in its title: Instruments of Mind. Cognitive Technology is concerned with the interaction between two worlds: that of the mind and that of the machine. In science and engineering, this - teraction is often explored by posing the question: how can technology be best tailored to human cognition? But as the history of technological developments has consistently shown, cognition is also fashioned by technology. Technologies as diverse as writing, electricity generation, and the silicon chip all illustrate the profound and dynamic impact of technology upon ourselves and our conceptions of the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Empirical Modeling Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Meurig Beynon

  • Adaptive Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield Herts, UK

    Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn

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