Visualizing practical knowledge: The Haughton-Mars Project
To improve how we envision knowledge, we must improve our ability to see knowledge in everyday life. That is, visualization is concerned not only with displaying facts and theories, but also with finding ways to express and relate tacit understanding. Such knowledge, although often referred to as &q...
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ftcogprints:oai:cogprints.org:394 2023-05-15T15:03:22+02:00 Visualizing practical knowledge: The Haughton-Mars Project Clancey, William J. Maar, Christa 1999 application/pdf http://cogprints.org/394/ http://cogprints.org/394/3/Munich99paper.pdf unknown BurdaCom, Munich, Germany http://cogprints.org/394/3/Munich99paper.pdf Clancey, William J. (1999) Visualizing practical knowledge: The Haughton-Mars Project. [Book Chapter] (In Press) Epistemology Philosophy of Science Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed 1999 ftcogprints 2015-05-11T07:28:27Z To improve how we envision knowledge, we must improve our ability to see knowledge in everyday life. That is, visualization is concerned not only with displaying facts and theories, but also with finding ways to express and relate tacit understanding. Such knowledge, although often referred to as "common," is not necessarily shared and may be distributed socially in choreographies for working together—in the manner that a chef and a maitre d’hôtel, who obviously possess very different skills, coordinate their work. Furthermore, non-verbal concepts cannot in principle be inventoried. Reifying practical knowledge is not a process of converting the implicit into the explicit, but pointing to what we know, showing its manifestations in our everyday life. To this end, I illustrate the study and reification of practical knowledge by examining the activities of a scientific expedition in the Canadian Arctic—a group of scientists preparing for a mission to Mars Book Part Arctic CogPrints - Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive Arctic |
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To improve how we envision knowledge, we must improve our ability to see knowledge in everyday life. That is, visualization is concerned not only with displaying facts and theories, but also with finding ways to express and relate tacit understanding. Such knowledge, although often referred to as "common," is not necessarily shared and may be distributed socially in choreographies for working together—in the manner that a chef and a maitre d’hôtel, who obviously possess very different skills, coordinate their work. Furthermore, non-verbal concepts cannot in principle be inventoried. Reifying practical knowledge is not a process of converting the implicit into the explicit, but pointing to what we know, showing its manifestations in our everyday life. To this end, I illustrate the study and reification of practical knowledge by examining the activities of a scientific expedition in the Canadian Arctic—a group of scientists preparing for a mission to Mars |
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