Workshop on Cognitive Activity in Social and Physical Environments

这个研讨会的目标是探索一种新的观点，即必须在社会和物理背景下看待心灵。在这一观点中，内部认知系统的过程和表征与外部世界的过程和表征紧密相连。换句话说，认知不是孤立的头脑，而是头脑与外部世界的紧密结合，外部世界由自然环境、设计的人工制品、社会环境、组织环境和文化环境组成。研讨会将召集与这一观点一致的一些具体工作领域的代表，包括情境行动、分布式认知、文化心理学、日常认知、思维活动观点、错误研究以及人机交互和计算机支持的合作工作等应用研究。人工智能、心理学、语言学、人类学和哲学等学科都活跃在这些辩论中。结果将包括一份国家科学基金会认知科学倡议计划的报告。

The goal of this workshop is to explore the new emerging view that the mind must be viewed in its social and physical context. In this view, the processes and representations of the internal cognitive system are tightly coupled with processes and representations in the external world. In other words, cognition is not about the mind in isolation, but the mind tightly coupled with the external world that consists of the natural environment, designed artifacts, the social environment, the organizational environment, and the cultural environment. The workshop will convene representatives of a number of specific lines of work that converge on this view, including situated action, distributed cognition, cultural psychology, everyday cognition, activity views of the mind, the study of errors, and studies of applications like human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Such disciplines as artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and philosophy are all active in these debates. The outcome will include a report for the National Science Foundation's planning for a Cognitive Science Initiative.