Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

✍ Scribed by William J. Clancey

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not just in terms of high-level "expertise," but in the ability to find one's way around the world, to learn new ways of seeing things, and to coordinate activity. This approach is called situated cognition. Situated Cognition differs from other purely philosophical treatises in that Clancey, an insider who has built expert systems for twenty years, explores the limitations of existing computer programs and compares them to human memory and learning capabilities. Clancey examines the implications of "situated action" from the perspective of artificial intelligence specialists interested in building robots.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Series foreword......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Introduction: What is situated cognition?......Page 20
Part I Representations and memory......Page 32
1 Aaron's drawing......Page 34
2 Mycin's map......Page 48
3 Remembering controversies......Page 65
4 Sensorimotor maps versus encodings......Page 95
Part II Situated robots......Page 118
5 Navigating without reading maps......Page 120
6 Perceiving without describing......Page 152
7 Remembering without matching......Page 165
8 Engineering transactional systems......Page 190
Part III Ecological theories......Page 218
9 Transactional experience......Page 220
10 Dialectic mechanism......Page 244
11 The ecological approach to perception......Page 265
Part IV Symbols reconsidered......Page 286
12 Coupling versus inference......Page 288
13 The varieties of symbol systems......Page 321
14 Reformulated dilemmas......Page 346
Conclusions: Lessons forcognitive science......Page 362
Notes......Page 388
References......Page 398
Author index......Page 410
Subject index......Page 414