Cognitive Networks: Interactivity, Intersubjectivity, and Synergy

Cognitive consequences of interactivity

When children encounter objects, design constrains and affords action and cognition. An observational study in the wild revealed how manipulable objects afforded greater complexity of cognitive outcomes, including testing causeand-effect and expressing abstract ideas about phenomena in the natural world. Evidence comes from video analysis of children’s speech, gesture, and action when using a w...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Towards Understanding the Cognitive Effects of Interactivity

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’13, April 28, 2013, Paris, France. Workshop on Experiencing Interactivity in Public Space (EIPS) http://www.cs.tut.fi/ihte/EIPS workshop CHI13/papers.shtml Abstract Cheap and easy-to-deploy consumer hardware, such as the Microsoft Kinect, touch screens, and smartphones drive an increasing proliferation of public space with interactive applications. ...

The Synergy between Bioinformatics and Cognitive Informatics

Bioinformatics is the comprehensive applications of mathematics, science, and a core set of problem-solving methods to the understanding of living systems. Cognitive informatics studies cognition and information sciences that investigates the processes of the natural intelligence. This paper briefly reviews the intersections and connections between two emerging fields of bioinformatics and cogn...

Vygotsky and intersubjectivity

Lev Vygotsky’s statement on the development of the higher psychological functions— from the interpsychological form to the intrapsychological form—is discussed in the article. I describe the changing of Vygotsky’s interest from nonverbal to verbal communication and his emphasis on verbal communication as an only kind of interpsychological function. I then analyze works that show the importance ...