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Contextual Inquiry: Inspire Design by Observing and Interviewing Users in Their Context

Through observation and collaborative interpretation, contextual inquiry uncovers hidden insights about customer’s work that may not be available through other research methods.

Intention, control, and the feeling of commitment

In this paper we propose that rational control of action, agentive stability over time, and coordinated social behavior, are assisted by a form of metacognitive monitoring, leading to an aspect of conscious experience: a feeling of commitment. This feeling of commitment is attached to the formation, retrieval, and execution of intentions. The metacognitive monitoring that produces it is sensitive to the importance of intentions. And the feeling of commitment facilitates the stability and effectiveness of intentions across individual and social contexts, strengthens goal shielding, biases intention retrieval, and thus structures prospective deliberation, expression of intention, and execution of intention. In section two, we discuss control, which is a central aspect of agency and action. In section three, we discuss a crucial part of control: intention. We also discuss a crucial part of intention: commitment. In section four we relate the commitment involved in intention with definitions of commitment in the literature. In section five we offer and elucidate our hypothesis.

Functional Synchronization: The Emergence of Coordinated Activity in Human Systems

The topical landscape of psychology is highly compartmentalized, with distinct phenomena explained and investigated with recourse to theories and methods that have little in common. Our aim in this article is to identify a basic set of principles ...

The Pacing of the Frontier

In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.

Towards Post-Interaction Computing: Addressing Immediacy, (un)Intentionality, Instability and Interaction Effects

We situate the debate on intentionality within the rise of cognitive neuroscience and argue that cognitive neuroscience can explain intentionality. We discuss the explanatory significance of ascribing intentionality to representations. At first, we ...

Prophecy And Future Coding

Preface: On Prophecy and the Search for Certainty in an Age of Reflexive Time

How are we writing the future of humanity?

Consciousness spinning

Cassyni Archivist

Cassyni Archivist joins approved talks, captures the session and chat, enriches it with AI, and publishes a citable video record when you choose to make it public.

Reflector: Infrastructure for Meetings, by Greyhaven

Most organizations run on meetings. Strategy gets debated there. Decisions get made there. Context lives there. And yet...

You Can't "Vibe Code" Love

About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the contingency that Ben

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The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence - Astral's Blog

Individual Experience vs. The Cochrane Review

On my decade-long exploration seeking a scientific language for singular evidence.

Blogging on the open social web - and more exciting features - pckt - Dev Journal

ATmosphere — referring to the growing ecosystem of applications built on the AT Protocol, a federated protocol for open social platforms. Not to be confused ...