%A Stevan Harnad
%J Cognitive Technology: In Search of a Humane Interface
%T Interactive Cognition: Exploring the Potential of Electronic Quote/Commenting
%X In this paper I have suggested that the electornic text-capturing and
quote/commenting (Q/C) capability that has emerged in the last two decades
has created the possibility of combining the discipline and reflectiveness of
writing with the speed and interactiveness of speech in a form of interactive
cognition that is sui generis and without precedent. Whether with another
interlocutor or with a text, the interaction can now take place at the speed of
thought, rather than at the lamentably slow turnaround time that paper
communication had dictated. A series of experiments is described that will
analyse and quantify the effects of Q/C interaction, both between people and
between people and texts. In the interests of developing a corpus in the
service of the latter form of interaction, plans for the establishment of a
worldwide cognitive science e-print archived modeled on the Los Alamos
Physics Preprint archive are also described.
%K student skywriting,quote/commenting, electronic publication,distance education
%P 397-414
%E B. Gorayska
%E J.L. Mey
%D 1995
%I Elsevier
%L cogprints1599