Reviews
'This book should be required reading for every serious student of computer system design.' Terry Winograd, Stanford University, 'This book should be required reading for all who deal with the study of human action, whether they be cognitive scientists interested in how people work or practitioners who wish to make systems for people to use … A most important work.' Donald A. Norman, University of California, San Diego, 'Lucy Suchman's book is a uniquely creative anthropological approach to human and machine intelligence. Her book poses a closely argued challenge to central assumptions in the cognitive sciences.' Jean Lave, University of California, Irvine, ‘This book should be required reading for all who deal with the study of human action, whether they be cognitive scientists interested in how people work or practitioners who wish to make systems for people to use … A most important work.’Donald A. Norman, University of California, San Diego, "Plans and Situated Actions is a substantive book. It has somthing important to say both to designers of interactive computer systems and to cognitive scientists who wish to understand communication either between people or between people and machines." Contemporary Psychology, 'Lucy Suchman's book is a uniquely creative anthropological approach to human and machine intelligence. Her book poses a closely argued challenge to central assumptions in the cognitive sciences.'Jean Lave, University of California, Irvine, ‘This book should be required reading for every serious student of computer system design.’Terry Winograd, Stanford University, ‘Lucy Suchman’s book is a uniquely creative anthropological approach to human and machine intelligence. Her book poses a closely argued challenge to central assumptions in the cognitive sciences.’Jean Lave, University of California, Irvine, 'This book should be required reading for all who deal with the study of human action, whether they be cognitive scientists interested in how people work or practitioners who wish to make systems for people to use ... A most important work.' Donald A. Norman, University of California, San Diego, 'This book should be required reading for every serious student of computer system design.'Terry Winograd, Stanford University, 'This book should be required reading for all who deal with the study of human action, whether they be cognitive scientists interested in how people work or practitioners who wish to make systems for people to use ... A most important work.'Donald A. Norman, University of California, San Diego
