creators_name: Harnad, Stevan editors_name: Gorayska, B. editors_name: Mey, J.L. type: bookchapter datestamp: 2001-06-19 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:41 metadata_visibility: show title: Interactive Cognition: Exploring the Potential of Electronic Quote/Commenting ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: student skywriting,quote/commenting, electronic publication,distance education abstract: In this paper I have suggested that the electornic text-capturing and quote/commenting (Q/C) capability that has emerged in the last two decades has created the possibility of combining the discipline and reflectiveness of writing with the speed and interactiveness of speech in a form of interactive cognition that is sui generis and without precedent. Whether with another interlocutor or with a text, the interaction can now take place at the speed of thought, rather than at the lamentably slow turnaround time that paper communication had dictated. A series of experiments is described that will analyse and quantify the effects of Q/C interaction, both between people and between people and texts. In the interests of developing a corpus in the service of the latter form of interaction, plans for the establishment of a worldwide cognitive science e-print archived modeled on the Los Alamos Physics Preprint archive are also described. date: 1995 date_type: published publication: Cognitive Technology: In Search of a Humane Interface publisher: Elsevier pagerange: 397-414 refereed: FALSE referencetext: Bailey, Elaine K.; Cotlar, Morton. Teaching via the internet. Communication Education, 1994 Apr, v43 (n2):184-193. Belew, R.K.; Rentzepis, J. HyperMail: treating electronic mail as literature. SIGUCCS Newsletter, Winter 1990, vol.20, (no.4):26-31. Benbasat, I.; Todd, P. An experimental investigation of interface design alternatives: icon vs. text and direct manipulation vs. menus. 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