Embodied Cognition and the Magical Future of Interaction Design

作者：Kirsh David^*

来源：ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2013, 20(1): 3.

DOI：10.1145/2442106.2442109

• Human-computer interaction
• embodied cognition
• distributed cognition
• situated cognition
• interaction design
• tangible interfaces
• physical computation
• mental simulation

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.

• 出版日期2013-3