Plans and Situated Actions
The Problem of Human-Machine Communication
by Lucille Alice Suchman · first published 1987
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…explained “Just go to the trashcan to find the bad copies and then… interpret what connects them all.” On a related note, I'd like to highly recommend Lucy Suchman's work, mentioned in this article as Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication, but the updated version now called Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. The new version has several extra chapters and some other revisions.…
on “The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine” ↗…difference definitions of useful) is clearly open to debate. I wrote a paper about this a few years ago that pins the popularity of the idea of the computer as interactive artifact on Lucy Suchman and her work Plans and Situated Actions. The relevant paragraph is here: http://peermore.com/astool.html#nid21T (take off the fragment for the whole paper). If we're actually having some kind of debate about how to signifiy in an interface…
on “Yours vs. Mine” ↗Reminds me of Suchman's "Plans and Situated Actions" --- an anthropological study of plans and planning, which also has a lot of implications for AI. Resonances to that famous Eisenhower quote "Plans are nothing, planning is everything" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342380.Plans_and_Situate...
on “Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)” ↗