I am glad to find support for my idea of "space a cognitive resource for action". At the "JOURNÉE SCIENTIFIQUE "ESPACE, INTER/ACTION & COGNITION"", Anna Spagnolli (Istituto di Psicologia, Università di Padova), Bernard Conein, (Dép. de Sociologie, Univ. de Lille), Eric Laurier (Department of Geogra...
[Space and Place] Sms and whereabouts
Via textually.org: A nationwide survey commissioned by mobile messaging expert, Freever, shows many Brits prefer texting their way out of difficult situations and 45% of respondents have lied about their whereabouts by text message The survey was conducted by Freever which is a specialist in mobile...
[MyResearch] Mapping the Activity Theory and Space
Today, after reading I was wondering about a mapping of the Activity Theory triangle (subject/outcome/community, tool/rules/division of labor) and space. For instance :- space supports division of labor (in the waiting room you wait the doctor, in his office you're examined) - different space = dif...
[MyResearch] Shared Workspace: linguistic analysis
Mondada, L., in press, "Operating together through videoconference: members' procedures accomplishing a common space of action", Proceedings of the IIEMCA Conference, "Orders of ordinary action" - Manchester, 9-11.7.2001. Abstract: This paper examines a particular work situation in which surgeons o...
[MyResearch] Lorenza Mondada
Lorenza Mondada (former homepage) is a linguistic professor at Université Lyon II. One of her book is of interest concerning my phd topic: Décrire la ville. La construction des savoirs urbains dans l'interaction et dans le texte. Ce livre, ecrit par une linguiste dans une perspective interdiscipli...
[MyResearch] Scripting Activity
In the context of my research about how spatial features (and spatial information) modifies group interaction/performance/collaboration processes, dks advises me to:- read things about Activity Theory (engstrom, leontiev) because of my situated distributed cognition framework. - develop a kind of x...
[TheWorld] French Minitel Still Alive
I was wondering about how the french minitel is still used. It was my first experience from 1989 to 1995 of forum, email-like conversation, chat. The minitel terminal at that time was almost free (now it's something like 2euros or 3dollars per month). Connection was not free (few cents per minutes...
[Weird] Nice Album Cover
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[MyResearch] Cognition in the Wild
I started reading Edwin Hutchin's book Cognition in the Wild. Moving forward what Clifford Geertz called "Outdoor psychology", Hutchins aims to locate cognitive activity in context. He defines context as "a wider dynamical process pf which the cognition of an individual is only a part", rather than...
[Weird] Spam Email Address Museum!
Fab also noticed the strong creative potential of spam address. examples: bla_alla agentoflove@absoluteagency.com Babcock V DrugStore Online Local Singles Ijgb Xw AccuQuote John Singleton Justin Schwester Moni Hgbf Zb Babbitt Stotts Alyssa Small is Bedroom Fantasies Debby Philip Euk...