Adaptive Perspectives on Human-Technology Interaction :
[Book]
Methods and Models for Cognitive Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction.
Alex Kirlik
New York
Oxford University Press
2006
(330 pages).
Oxford series in human-technology interaction.
Foreword; Contents; Contributors; I: Background and Motivation; Ii: Technological Interfaces; Iii: Automation and Decision Aiding; Iv: Alternatives to Compensatory Modeling; V: Into the Field: Vicarious Functioning in Action; Vi: Ecological Analysis Meets Computational Cognitive Modeling; Vii: Reflections and Future Directions; Name Index; Subject Index.
How to understand and support cognition in human-technology interaction is both a practically and socially relevant problem. The chapters frame this problem in adaptive terms: how are behaviour and cognition adapted, or perhaps ill-adapted, to the demands and opportunities of an environment where interaction is mediated by tools and technology?