The Dynamic Structure of Everyday Life

Title: en_US The Dynamic Structure of Everyday Life
Creator: en_US Agre, Philip E.
Date: 2004-10-20T20:11:54Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:11:54Z
Date Issued: en_US 1988-10-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-1085
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6975
Abstract: en_US Computational theories of action have generally understood the organized nature of human activity through the construction and execution of plans. By consigning the phenomena of contingency and improvisation to peripheral roles, this view has led to impractical technical proposals. As an alternative, I suggest that contingency is a central feature of everyday activity and that improvisation is the central kind of human activity. I also offer a computational model of certain aspects of everyday routine activity based on an account of improvised activity called running arguments and an account of representation for situated agents called deictic representation .
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Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-1085