{"product_id":"embodying-design-isbn-9780262543781","title":"Embodying Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eRethinking design through the lens of embodied cognition provides a novel way of understanding human interaction with technology. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Christopher Baber uses embodied cognition as a lens through which to view both how designers engage in creative practices and how people use designed artifacts. This view of cognition as enactive, embedded, situated, or distributed, without recourse to internal representations, provides a theoretical grounding that makes possible a richer account of human interaction with technology. This understanding of everyday interactions with things in the world reveals opportunities for design to intervene. Moreover, Baber argues, design is an embodied activity in which the continual engagement between designers and their materials is at the heart of design practice.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBaber proposes that design and creativity should be considered in dynamic, rather than discrete, terms and explores “task ecologies”—the concept of environment as it relates to embodied cognition. He uses a theory of affordance as an essential premise for design practice, arguing that affordances are neither form nor function but arise from the dynamics within the human-artifact-environment system. Baber explores agency and intent of smart devices and implications of tangible user interfaces and activity recognition for human-computer interaction. He proposes a systems view of human-artifact-environment interactions—to focus on any one component or pairing misses the subtleties of these interactions. The boundaries between components remain, but the borders that allow exchange of information and action are permeable, which gives rise to synergies and interactions.Preface ix\u003cbr\u003e1 \"Cut the Pie Any Way You Like, 'Meanings' Just Ain't in the Head!\" 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Thinking, Acting, Creating 23\u003cbr\u003e3 Understanding Task Ecologies 45\u003cbr\u003e4 Affordance 67\u003cbr\u003e5 Ecological Interface Design 87\u003cbr\u003e6 Things That Think and Act 107\u003cbr\u003e7 Recognizing Activity and Intent 129\u003cbr\u003e8 Eventually Everything Connects 153\u003cbr\u003eNotes 171\u003cbr\u003eIndex 197“In this exciting new book, Christopher Baber rethinks the nature of design and creativity in terms drawn from 4E cognitive science. Baber brings together extraordinarily subtle understandings of design and the cognitive sciences in a way that enriches both fields.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAnthony Chemero, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Cincinnati\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Baber usefully connects contemporary neurocognitive work in predictive coding and the Bayesian brain with more established embodied and ecological approaches and aptly critiques ‘information-processing’ approaches to design. \u003ci\u003eEmbodying Design\u003c\/i\u003e is laudable and timely, if not overdue.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSimon Penny, Professor of Art, Music and Informatics, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/b\u003eChristopher Baber is Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301586784485,"sku":"NP9780262543781","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543781.jpg?v=1767726194","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/embodying-design-isbn-9780262543781","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}