Abstract:This article presents a theoretical argument and a short observational study in favor of a new metaphor for IHC studies about the processes involved in software development: dialogism. Based on the written production of the Bakhtin Circle as well as on a socio-cultural perspective of cognition as "situated" and "distributed", we discuss the dialogical nature of software development as a process, from the initial moments of authoring to the later stages of its use. In the same vain, we advance design directions… Show more
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