Date

Topic

Reading

Projects

Notes

1/4

Two Perspectives on Cognition and course mechanics.

Project one: Keeping a cognitive diary

P1: Intro

Lecture

1/6

Everyday Memory

Choosing an activity from your diary

Neisser, Memory: What are the important questions? (Reading preparation)

P1: Cognitive Diary Open

Lec: Memory
Proj 1 Guidance

1/11

Observing Everyday Activity

Lave, et al. Dialectic of Arithmetic [R] (ReadPrep)

P1 Text

Renner

1/13

Observing Complexity in Nonhuman behavior

Johnson, Observing Complexity

Johnson

1/16

P1 Reviews

1/18

Professional contexts for seeing

Analyze your own activity

Goodwin, Professional Vision  (ReadPrep)

Seeing cognition in photos

P2 Photo Analysis Open

  Lecture: ProfVision, Proj2

1/20

Discursive practices

Taking and analyzing photos (example: surfboard blanks factory)

Williams, Cognitive Ethnography (ReadPrep)

CognitiveEthnography

1/23

1/25

Analyzing interviews, what women think about men.

Conducting an interview

Holland and Skinner, Prestige and Intimacy [R]

 P2 Text Due

Lecture cancelled

1/27

Interview transcription techniques

Ensuring your interview contains cultural models

DAndrade, A folk model of the mind. [R]

P3 Cultural Models Intro

Cultural Models

1/28

2/1

Seeing how scientists see facts by creating and moving inscriptions

Latour, Visualization and Cognition (ReadPrep)

P2 Reviews Due

P3 Cultural Models Open

P3Instructions
Model of Mind

2/3

Finding and describing cultural models in your interview

Finding Cultural Models in your Interview

2/6

2/8

Field Experiments

Nunez and Sweetser, With the future behind them.

Visualization

2/10

Constructing scientific knowledge with the body

Alac and Hutchins, "I see what you are saying"

 P3 Text Due

fMRI Practices and Aymara Time

2/15

Video recording analysis

Hutchins and Palen, Constructing meaning

P3 Reviews

Constructing Meaning
VisualApproach  

2/17

 Establishing common reference in interaction

Hindmarsh & Heath, Configuring Action

P4 Video Transcript Open

 Nothing Never Happens

2/20

2/22

Action in the subjunctive mood

 Murphy, Imagination as Joint Activity

  CogEthnog Toolkit

2/24

 P4 Text

  Joint Imagine
TranscriptVariants

Reading Quiz

2/27

3/1

 Analyzing video

Goodwin, Action and Embodiment

P4 Reviews

ActionEmbodiment
P5 Discussion  

3/3

  ChronoVis: Fouse, Weibel, Hutchins, HollanKirsh, Thinking with the Body

 P5 Open

  ThinkingBody

3/5

3/ 8

Student Project Presentations

 P5 Text

3/10

Student  Project Presentations

3/14

P5 Reviews