Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This workshop is aimed at giving human interaction re-searchers the conceptual and practical apparatus to balancetheir representations of data (mixes of drawings and pho-tographs in the most part), so as to “maximally incite, but alsoconstrain” their representations, just as artists sometimes suc-ceed in doing (Streeck, Grothues, & Villanueva, 2009, p.28).Why—as Streeck points out—are the drawings and visuali-sations of interaction researchers so halting and timid, com-pared to the ways artists have responded to the same kinds ofrepresentational problems? Are these heavily segmented andsparsely constructed representations of interaction the resultof a prevailing positivistic outlook with regard to representingshared space, where interaction is presented as staggered anddiscrete physical events with apparently little to connect them.The workshop seeks to redress this situation by examining thesolutions that artists have arrived at when representing humaninteraction, and asking participants to engage in a series of ac-tivities and discussions which will re-frame their approachesto this issue.