[Patina] Re: distributed cognition refereces

[Enrico Costanza]

> We have a digital video camera here too. Is it worth videoing any specific activities? 
That can be a good idea. The downside, however, is that analysing video
can really take a lot of time. Probably the best is to identify specific
activities first through just note-taking and understand what we want to
get out of the video, and then go back to film.

> I also think it may be worth doing a screen capture of some workflows.
>   
I agree.

Best,
Enrico
> Tom - can you add and organise all this on the new wiki and bibliographic software please?
>
> Cheers,
>
> G 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patina-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:patina-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Enrico Costanza
> Sent: 20 September 2010 00:01
> To: Southampton-specific mailing list for PATINA project
> Subject: [Patina] distributed cognition refereces
>
> Hello.
>
> Thanks Luc for setting up the mailing list and wiki.
>
> I promised some references on the "Distributed Cognition" framework
> which can be useful for observing and analysing existing practices of
> archaeologists' computer use.
>
> A good introductory paper is:
> http://mcs.open.ac.uk/yr258/papers/dcog/dcog-brief-intro.pdf
> (maybe enough at this stage)
>
> This HCI book: http://www.id-book.com/
> also covers the basics of how to apply distributed cognition to a field
> observation (pp 394-399).
>
> The paper that is often cited as seminal for Distributed Cognition is:
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84.4210&rep=rep1&type=pdf
> This however is less practical for our context.
>
> Another more theoretical paper:
> http://www.springerlink.com/index/BMWNJ1NFHWTW136V.pdf
>
> Tom, at the risk of stating the obvious, when I started doing this kind
> of field work I was given the following suggestions:
> -  use a digital voice recorder, because they have better microphones
> than an average cell phone, and they are quite inexpensive, for example:
> http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1388
> (always ask permission at the beginning of the recording);
> - even though you are recording, try to take as many notes as possible,
> and use the recording as a failback; transcribing can be very time
> consuming (if you have to transcribe, there are free software
> applications that make it easier);
> - if possible take photos.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best,
> Enrico
>
>   


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Dr Enrico Costanza
Lecturer, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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