Response to Vera and Simon's Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation

Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation

The congeries of theoretical views collectively referred to as "situated action" (SA) claim that humans and their interactions with the world cannot be understood using symbol-system models and methodology, but only by observing them within real-world contexts or building nonsymbolic models of them. SA claims also that rapid, real-time interaction with a dynamically changing environment is not ...

Situated Action: A Neuropsychologiwl Interpretation Response to Vera and Simon WILLIAM

Situated cognition research rejects the hypothesis that neurological structures and processes are similar in kind to the symbols we create and use in our everyday lives. The symbolic approach, as described by Vera and Simon (1993), conflates neurological stmctures and processes with physical representations that we perceive and manipulate in our environment (e.g., a journal article) and experie...

Whistleblowing in the Wind Towards a Socially Situated Research Agenda: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Supporting Situated Interpretation

This paper discusses the role of interpretation in innovative design and proposes an approach to providing computer support for interpretation in design. According to situated cognition theory, most of a designer’s knowledge is normally tacit. Situated interpretation is the process of explicating something that is tacitly understood, within its larger context. The centrality of interpretation t...

Phenomenology and Situated Action

Situated Action, the newest approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI), is in need of a coherent theoretical foundation both to support it and to unify its proponents. To that end, we believe that the work Merleau-Ponty wilt prove invaluable. In the past, Heideggcr’s work has been referred to from time to time in Situated Action literature. Hoxvever, we believe that Merleau-Ponty’s work is better...