Plans and Situated Actions
Subtitle: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 25, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521331371
Subjects: Human-computer interaction; Ethnophilosophy; Computers / Programming / General; Human-machine systems; Cognition and culture
First sentence: In The Second Self (1984), Sherry Turkle describes the computer as an "evocative object," one that raises new questions regarding our common sense of the distinction between artifacts and intelligent others.