Embodied cognition and the magical future of interaction design
By David Kirsh. TCHI, 2013
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The theory of embodied cognition can provide HCI practitioners and theorists with new ideas about interaction and new principles for better designs. I support this claim with four ideas about cognition: (1) interacting with tools changes the way we think and perceive -- tools, when manipulated, are soon absorbed into the body schema, and this absorption leads to fundamental changes in the way we perceive and conceive of our environments; (2) we think with our bodies not just with our brains; (3) we know more by doing than by seeing -- there are times when physically performing an activity is better than watching someone else perform the activity, even though our motor resonance system fires strongly during other person observation; (4) there are times when we literally think with things. These four ideas have major implications for interaction design, especially the design of tangible, physical, context aware, and telepresence systems.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction
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- Embodiment and embodied design (2014, background): “For example, examining how people move their hands as they speak about artifacts they have just learned to manipulate helps us understand how actual interactions develop into simulated actions that impact future physical and cognitive performance (Goldin-Meadow & Beilock, 2010; Kirsh, 2013).”