| Human-Centered Computing Toward a Theory of Complex and Cognitive Systems (2008) | |||||||||||||
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| Essays in this department have presented nine propositions that we’ve referred to as principles of humancentered computing: • The Aretha Franklin Principle: Do not devalue the human in order to justify the machine. Do not criticize the machine in order to rationalize the human. Advocate the human-machine system in order to amplify both. 1 • The Sacagawea Principle: Human-centered computational tools need to support active organization of information, active search for information, active exploration of information, reflection on the meaning of information, and evaluation and choice among action sequence alternatives. 2 • The Lewis and Clark Principle: The human user of the guidance needs to be shown the guidance in a way that is organized in terms of his or her major goals. Information needed for each particular goal should be shown in a meaningful form, and should allow the human to directly comprehend the major decisions associated with each goal. 2 • The Envisioned World Principle: The introduction of new technology, including appropriately human-centered technology, will bring about changes in environmental constraints (that is, features of the sociotechnical system, or the context of practice). Even though the domain constraints might remain unchanged, and even if cognitive | |||||||||||||
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