How we cope with digital technology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Turner, Phil
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, [2013]
Series:	Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics ; # 18.
Subjects:	Adjustment (Psychology) Human-computer interaction. coping epistemic actions familiarity prior knowledge scaffolding Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
1.1 Digital natives
1.2 Unruly, complex technology
1.3 Monday, Monday
1.4 The habitual nature of everyday life
1.5 Coping, comportment, and cognition
1.6 Actions to support coping
1.7 This lecture
2. Familiarity
2.1 Key points
2.2 Defining familiarity
2.3 Readiness to cope
2.3.1 Making use of the tacit
2.3.2 A structure for prior knowledge
2.3.3 Collages and vicarious learning
2.4 Our involvement with digital technology
2.5 Not being familiar
2.5.1 Reconfiguring one's world
2.5.2 Computers are part of 'modern life'
2.5.3 Participating in the modern world
2.5.4 The meeting of two worlds
2.5.5 In summary
2.6 Familiarity within HCI
2.6.1 Making sense of tasks
2.6.2 Shared meaning
2.6.3 Learning to be familiar
2.7 In summary
3. Coping
3.1 Key points
3.2 Introduction
3.3 Practical coping
3.4 Immediate coping
3.5 Smooth coping
3.6 Embodied coping
3.7 Is coping simply intuitive behaviour?
3.7.1 Two modes of cognition
3.7.2 Intuition and perception
3.8 An initial sketch of coping
3.9 In summary
4. Epistemic scaffolding
4.1 Key points
4.2 When coping alone is not enough
4.3 Defining epistemic actions
4.4 Abduction
4.5 Epistemic actions at work
4.5.1 Epistemic actions as articulation
4.5.2 Using the environment
4.5.3 Making use of external representations
4.6 Private and public language
4.6.1 Self-talk & instructional nudges
4.6.2 The zone of proximal development
4.7 The appropriation of digital technology
4.7.1 What is deemed not to be appropriation
4.8 The dimensions of appropriation
4.8.1 User configuration
4.8.2 Ensoulment
4.8.3 Personalisation
4.9 Technological niches?
4.9.1 Niches and ecologies
4.10 In summary
5. Coping in context
5.1 Key points
5.2 Situated, embodied, and distributed
5.2.1 Coping is the situated use of digital technology
5.2.2 Coping is the distributed use of digital technology
5.2.3 Coping is the embodied use of digital technology
5.3 Coping is how we use digital technology
5.4 Last word: a fresh look at cognitive science?
Bibliography
Author biography.