Is the Gesture Part of Our Thinking System?

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The power of the unaided human mind is greatly exaggerated. We always reach a point where our brain is just simply overwhelmed. Designers need to be aware of this and incorporate more things into that picture. i think that's specially going to be true as our technologies improve and allow us to use more and more of our physical abilities, or inter active powers.

Karl Fast is an independent scholar, information architect, and futurist. He's the co-author of Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding alongside Stephen Anderson, who was featured in episode 39 of the show. In this conversation, Karl tells us about what interaction designers can learn from cognitive science. We had a lot to discuss, so this episode is the first of two on the subject.

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@karlfast on Twitter
Karl Fast on LinkedIn
Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding by Stephen P. Anderson and Karl Fast
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Stroop effect
The Extended Mind by Andy Clark and David Chalmers
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark
HCI Remixed: Essays on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community, edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald
On Distinguishing Epistemic From Pragmatic Action by David Kirsch and Paul Maglio (pdf)
The Intelligent Use of Space by David Kirsch
Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think by Susan Goldin-Meadow
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine by Don Norman
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
Hans Moravec

Disclosure: I received Karl’s book for free as a previous Rosenfeld Media/Two Waves author.

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