Ed Hutchins’ manifesto begins: “The Digital
Ethnographer’s Workbench project is part of a growing movement in the
behavioral sciences to reengage a set of questions that were abandoned early in
the cognitive revolution. These questions have to do with the nature of human
activity as it occurs in natural settings. We are looking where cognitive
science has not paid much attention: fine-scale details of moment-by-moment
interactions. We approach this with a theoretical framework that is still
being developed. Recent advances in recording technologies give us access
to the details of human interaction. Our first order of business is to
understand what the phenomena are. What needs explanation? What do people
actually do? In our very brief presentations to the lab in recent weeks
we have encountered some really interesting phenomena. A partial list includes
the following items [more].
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