Cognitive technology

In this book the editors have gathered a number of contributions by persons who have been working on problems of Cognitive Technology (CT). The present collection initiates explorations of the human mind via the technologies the mind produces. These explorations take as their point of departure the question <Q>What happens when humans produce new technologies?</Q> Two interdependent perspectives from which such a production can be approached are adopted: & bull; How and why constructs that have their origins in human mental life are embodied in physical environments when people fabricate their habitat, even to the point of those constructs becoming that very habitat & bull; How and why these fabricated habitats affect, and feed back into, human mental life.^ The aim of the CT research programme is to determine, in general, which technologies, and in particular, which interactive computer-based technologies, are <IT>humane</IT> with respect to the cognitive development and evolutionary adaptation of their end users. But what does it really mean to be <IT>humane</IT> in a technological world? To shed light on this central issue other pertinent questions are raised, e.g. & bull; Why a