Engaging with a CHI Paper Through Embodied Action: A Situated Analysis of "Design for Collaborative Survival"
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Abstract
As Michael Polanyi claims, "we know more than we can tell." As such, much of the author's tacit knowledge remains beyond the reader's grasp. However, by engaging with the text through embodied action, readers can gain their own tacit knowledge which may approximate or even expand upon the author's knowledge through the reader's own situated analysis. I present a situated analysis of a CHI paper, "Design for Collaborative Survival," to propose an embodied method of reading through situated action that enables communication and expansion of the knowledge beyond the text. I responded to each of the concepts in that paper in an active way to better approach the authors' tacit knowledge by developing my own. Through this activity I intend to stimulate discussion on how authors and readers can benefit from similar methods that take reading beyond the text.
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