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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Situated Action"”.
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A connectionist approach to human planning
… are hierarchical Elman networks. Based on the situated action account (Clark, 1997; Suchman, 1987), the input of EVA is for the most part a representation of the current state of the Plan-A-Day scenario. The data obtained by simulation runs is compared to empirical data obtained by a study with …
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A study of peer activity in the early years through a range of contextual frameworks
… distributed cognition, activity theory and situated action</i>. <br></br><br></br> Peer literature in the early years is both varied and confusing in terms of context and outcome. Because of this predicament, it is suggested that there is an opening for studying peer activity from a …
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Active Ageing with Music and Technology: Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music
… community music practices and technology use as situated action provides opportunities to grasp the subtleties of social participation and technology use for active ageing. Qualitative and quantitative enquiries were used to (i) uncover the experiences of meaningful participation and the situated …
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Directed Actions Guide Insight in Problem Solving
… literature shows that mental simulations, situated action, and bodily states underlie cognition, but researchers have done relatively little work to examine whether cognitive processes can arise from the manner in which our bodies interact with the immediate environment, nor whether it is …
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Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process
… argue that creativity should be understood as a situated and distributed process. As I develop my approach to understanding creativity over the course of this dissertation, three core claims emerge: 1) that the creative powers of particular agents are constituted within the concrete circumstances …
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Image-Enabled Discourse: Investigating the Creation of Visual Information as Communicative Practice
… communicative activities in terms of interactional sociolinguistic concepts of conversational involvement and coordination, specifically framing, footing and stance. The study shows that when drawing occurs in the context of an ongoing dialogue, the activity of visual representation …
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An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Interactions in Innovative Learning Spaces
… following the analytic orientation of Suchman’s situated action, considers and juxtaposes anticipated versus actual use. More specifically, this work addresses the following research questions: • How do people interact with the architectural and technological infrastructure and with each other in …
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Perception and Action Weighting in Memory Representations
… reported in the present explored the interaction between perception and action, focusing on how this might occur under memory conditions. This was done in line with the proposals of grounded cognition and situated action, in which action and perception are tightly linked, and able to …
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Consumer Pride and Consumption-Based Family Rituals: A Field Study in Zagreb, Croatia
… is ritual. According to Collins' Interaction Ritual Chain (2004), elements of sustained rituals such as Sunday family dinner reinforce expression of emotion and the status of symbolic goods. Thus, this dissertation investigates how consumption-based family rituals elicit pride. It takes …
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On Digital Drumming: Collaborative, Dyadic, Co-Located, Coordinated Interaction
… questions of their impact on behavior and interactions begin to arise. Digital Drumming is a series of three experiments that examined the impact of known computer participation as a partner in a dyadic creative, experience-driven task. The subjective processes associated with the task of …
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no deck officer collective tacit knowledge. I argue that deck officer bridge watch situated actions are mostly polimorphic (actions can vary depending on social context), and these actions are in fact performatives (in an Austin …