Suggested classical readings

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Boston, Massachusetts: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Bruner, J. S. (1964). The Course of Cognitive Growth. American Psychologist, 19 (1), 1- 15.

Butler, J. (1990). Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge.

Descartes, R. (1641). Meditations on First Philosophy (1986 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dewey, J. (1916). Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education London: Collier Macmillian Publishers.

Dreyfus, H. L. (1992). What Computers Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press.

Gibson, J. (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston, USA: Houghton-Mifflin Co.

Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life. London: Penguin Books.

Heidegger, M. (1927). Being and Time (1962 ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.

Husserl, E. (1916). General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (3rd Edition (1962)  New York: Collier Books.

Kant, E. (1781). The Critique of Pure Reason (1998 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phenomenology: Language and Society (1974 ed.). Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann.

Piaget, J. (1954). The Construction of Reality in the Child. New York: Basic Books.

Suchman, L. A. (2007). Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press.

Vygotsky, L. S. (1934). Thought and Language (1962 ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Winograd, T., & Flores, F. (1986). Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Contemporary readings

Anderson, M. L. (2003). Embodied Cognition: A field guide. Artificial Intelligence, 149(2003), 91-130.

Antle, A., Corness, G., & Droumeva, M. (2009). Springboard: Exploring Embodiment, Balance and Social Justice. Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI), Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Antle, A., Droumeva, M., & Ha, D. (2009). Thinking with Hands: An Embodied Approach to the Analysis of Children’s Interaction with Computational Objects. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 5-10, Florence, Italy.

Clark, A. (2005). Beyond the Flesh: Lessons from a Mole Cricket. Artificial Life, 11(2005), 233-244.

De Preester, H., & Knockaert, K. (2005). Body Image and Body Schema- interdisciplinary perspectives on the body. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins A.V.

Dourish, P. (2001). Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT press.

Ganbarini, F., & Adenzato, M. (2007). At the root of embodied cognition: Cognitive science meets neurophysiology Brain and Cognition, 56, 100-106

Goldin-Meadow, S. (1999). The role of gesture in communication and thinking. Trends in Cognitive Science, 3(11), 419 -429.

Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, 14 (3), 575-599.

Hindmarsh, J., & Pilnick, A. (2007). Knowing Bodies at Work: Embodiment and Ephemeral Teamwork in Anaesthesia. Organization Studies, 28, 1395-1416.

Hurtienne, J., Stößel, C., Sturm, C., Maus, A., Rötting, M., Langdon, P., & Clarkson, J. (2010). Physical gestures for abstract concepts: Inclusive design with primary metaphors. Interacting with Computers, 22 (2010), 475-484.

Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. Jenson, J., & de Castell, S. (2009). Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory. Proceedings of DiGRA 2009 Brunel University, UK.

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.

Marshall, P., Price, S., & Rogers, Y. (2003). Conceptualising tangibles to support learning. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Lancashire, Preston, England.

Price, S., Roussos, G., Pontual Falcao, T., & Sheridan, J. G. (2009). Technology and embodiment: relationships and implications for knowledge, creativity and communication. Beyond Current Horizons: technology, children, schools and families.

Roth, W. M. (2002). From action to discourse: The bridging function of gestures. Cognitive Systems Research 3(2002), 535-554.

Seitz, J. A. (2000). The bodily basis of thought. New Ideas in Psychology, 18, 23-40.

Shaer, O., & Hornecker, E. (2010). Tangible User Interfaces: Past, Present and Future Directions (Vol. 3). Delft, The Netherlands: Now publishers.

Suchman, L. A. (2007). Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and situated actions (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press.

Sundén, J. (2003). Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment (Vol. Digital Formations. Vol. 13). New York: Peter Lang Academic Publishers.

Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books.

Turner, B. S. (1996). The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory. London: Sage Publications.

Waskul, D., & Vannini, P. (Eds.). (2006). Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing.

Weiser, M. (1991). The Computer for the 21st Century. Scientific American, 265(3), 94-104.

Wilson, M. (2002). Six view of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9 (4), 625-636.

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