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Traditionally, cognitive analysis of interaction has been done by applying theoretical models of human cognitive processes proposed by cognitive psychologists. However, this approach is now facing an important problem: predictions made from these models developed in laboratory settings with particular materials, tasks and people are not confirmed when we have to predict how a person interacts with a device. This failure could be explained by recognising that these theoretical models incorrectly assume that the human cognitive processes work independently of context. Furthermore, traditional analysis of interaction has also incorrectly assumed that the human being is the only cognitive agent in the interaction. We propose to replace this analysis by another one in which interaction design should be based on the idea that human cognitive processes adapt their operations to contextual changes to interact with other cognitive agents, devices, to perform jointly the task at hand. In this chapter we define some steps towards the development of this new cognitive analysis. In addition, we present the principle of “mutual dependency” that could be of much use in facing the future of interaction design.
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Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L., Fajardo, I. (2005). Toward the analysis of the interaction in the joint cognitive system. In: Pirhonen, A., Saariluoma, P., Isomäki, H., Roast, C. (eds) Future Interaction Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-089-3_6
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