Cognition and communication at work

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1 - Introduction: Studying work as mindful practice......Page 13
2 - Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit......Page 27
3 - Constituting shared workspaces......Page 47
4 - Seeing as situated activity: Formulating planes......Page 73
5 - Convergent activities: Line control and passenger information on the London Underground......Page 108
6 - Users and designers in mutual activity: An analysis of cooperative activities in systems design......Page 142
7 - System disturbances as springboard for development of operators\' expertise......Page 171
8 - Expert and novice differences in cognition and activity: A practical work activity......Page 189
9 - The tensions of judging: Handling cases of driving under the influence of alcohol in Finland and California......Page 211
10 - Talking work: Argument, common knowledge, and improvisation in teamwork......Page 245
11 - The collective construction of scientific genius......Page 269
12 - Experience and the collective nature of skill......Page 291
13 - Working together: Symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and information systems......Page 308
14 - On the ethnography of cooperative work......Page 331
Index......Page 353