{"id":288,"date":"2013-06-24T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=288"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:18:37","slug":"artefacts-as-reminders-a-knot-in-the-handkerchief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Artefacts as reminders &#8211; a knot in the handkerchief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I few years ago I read Devina&#8217;s paper titled &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10111-005-0179-1\">Artefacts as designed, artefacts as used: resources for uncovering activity dynamics<\/a>&quot;. On of the participants in the study <strong>put papers that needed immediate attention next day on her chair<\/strong>. Next morning, before sitting on a chair she was reminded by papers there, that they need immediate attention. <\/p>\n<p>But how to remind ourself of random, unrelated things. <strong>My grandma used to <a href=\"http:\/\/everything2.com\/title\/Tie+a+knot+in+your+handkerchief\">tie knots in her handkerchief<\/a><\/strong>. This antique reminding technique has probably fallen out of fashion with paper tissues. There are a few papers available on this subject:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holland, Valsiner, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1525\/eth.1988.16.3.02a00020\/full\">Cognition, symbols, and Vygotsky&#8217;s developmental psychology<\/a>, Ethos, 1988 <\/li>\n<li>Shanon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1207\/s15327868ms0502_4\">The Knot in the Handkerchief<\/a>, Metaphor and Symbol, 1990<\/li>\n<li>Koriat, Ben-Zur and Sheffer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/0749596X88900460\">Telling the same story twice: Output monitoring and age<\/a>, Journal of Memory and Language, 1988<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recently I participated in a heuristic evaluation of an <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.extrams.mycapp\">Android app MyCAPP for collecting and studying<\/a><a> You Are Here<\/a> maps. Since I found a map indoors and the GPS signal could not be picked up, <strong>I decided to put the phone on a window shelf in a corridor while a was working a few meters away<\/strong>. I really <strong>didn&#8217;t want to forget my phone<\/strong> there so I needed a reminder. <strong>I put a cable tie of my laptop power adapter around a handle of a tea cup<\/strong>. When I was leaving I had to tidy up and <strong>put the cable in my bag which involved untying the cup and remembering the phone<\/strong>. Simple, elegant and useful. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20130418_212048.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently I had a conversation about this behaviour with a friend and he told me that he often remembers something while already in bed and because he does not want to wake up he <strong>picks a random thing and throws it in the middle of the room<\/strong>. <strong>In the morning he sees an unusual thing on the floor and remembers<\/strong> whatever he wanted to be reminded of. <\/p>\n<p>Obelix would say: &quot;Human mind is crazy&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I few years ago I read Devina&#8217;s paper titled &quot;Artefacts as designed, artefacts as used: resources for uncovering activity dynamics&quot;. On of the participants in the study put papers that needed immediate attention next day on her chair. Next morning, before sitting on a chair she was reminded by papers there, that they need immediate&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-physical-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}