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Cognition and communication at work
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Cognition and communication at work

Author: Yrjö Engeström; David Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : English : Pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Yrjö Engeström; David Middleton
ISBN: 0521645662 9780521645669
OCLC Number: 41578004
Description: ix, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : studying work as mindful practice / Yrjö Engeström and David Middleton -- Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit / Edwin Hutchins and Tove Klausen -- Constituting shared workspaces / Lucy Suchman -- Seeing as situated activity : formulating planes / Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- Convergent activities : line control and passenger information on the London Underground / Christian Heath and Paul Luff -- Users and designers in mutual activity : an analysis of cooperative activities in systems design / Susanne Bødker and Kaj Grønbœk -- System disturbances as springboard for development of operators' expertise / Leena Norros -- Expert and novice differences in cognition and activity : a practical work activity / Edith A. Laufer and Joseph Glick -- The tensions of judging : handling cases of driving under the influence of alcohol in Finland and California / Yrjö Engeström -- Talking work : argument, common knowledge, and improvisation in teamwork / David Middleton -- The collective construction of scientific genius / Chandra Mukerji -- Experience and the collective nature of skill / Harley Shaiken -- Working together : symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and information systems / Susan Leigh Star -- On the ethnography of cooperative work / Arne Raeithel.
Responsibility: edited by Yrjö Engeström, David Middleton.

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