Intégrer les aspects situés de l’activité dans une ingénierie cognitive centrée sur la situation d’utilisation

Abstract

The classical design approaches, especially in computer design, use a functional decomposition of the artifact, which is very powerful but only integrates knowledge about the activity in symbolic terms. An alternative paradigm has then been developed to restitute the situated aspects of activity, brought by empirical studies. But obtaining the formalized models, necessary for design, is difficult. The structural coupling theory provides a theoretical and methodological framework to articulate these two approaches. A cognitive engineering, centered on the situations of use, is founded in order to guide the formalization of situated knowledge in computer models.

Keywords

• design
• HCI
• situated action
• object oriented analysis
• cognitive engineering