A11DanielDelany
Last modified by Hal Eden on 2010/08/20 11:06
A11DanielDelany
To Do
- please work as individuals for this assignment
- read the paper for the guest lecture on November 12
- Michael Eisenberg "Mindstuff: Educational Technology Beyond the Computer"
Task
Post one question about the paper including a rationale why you find your questions interesting and important!Response
- 1. Members of the Group
- Daniel Delany
- 2. MikeQuestion
- Proponents of the "extended mind" concept pioneered by Clark and Chalmers speak about "offloading cognition" to physical objects, for example, using a globe to visualize geographic space. This phenomenon describes more than just using an object for data reference, proposing that we use external physical objects as an extension of our "working memory," the part of memory used for temporarily storing and manipulating information.
This article describes some of the difficulties of using computational systems for this offloading - while they may have significant cognitive abilities, they are limited by their tangible, physical form and the comfort users have with them. There have been a number of ongoing attempts to create a sort of pseudo-tangibility to computer systems, including:
- Multitouch and surface computers
- Virtual reality and 3d environments
- Augmented reality
- Movement-based control (accelerometers in Wii, iPhone, PS3)
- Head-tracking systems (Johnny Chung Lee's Wii system)
- Gesture recognition (through live camera images, multitouch, etc.)
- Telepresence systems (remote surgery, etc.)
- GPS/location-based computing
