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Kirsh, D. 2013. Embodied cognition and the magical future of interaction design. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 20, 1, Article 3 (March 2013), 30 pages. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2442106.2442109
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Kirsh, D. Caballero, R., Cuykendall S. When doing the wrong thing is right. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum.2012.
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Kirsh, D. Running it through the Body. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum. 2012.
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Skundergard, K, Kirsh, D, Dahlback, N. Maps in the Head and Maps in the Hand. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum. 2012.
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Kirsh, D. How marking in dance constitutes thinking with the body. In Versus: Quaderni di Studi Semiotici. Bompiani, Milan. Vol 113-115. pp 179-210. 2011.
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Kirsh, D. Situating Instructions, in Kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Nersessian, N. J. (eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. New Bulgarian University Press, 2011
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Theodore C. Chan, William G. Griswold, Colleen Buono, David Kirsh, Joachim Lyon, James P. Killeen, Edward M. Castillo and Leslie Lenert (2011). Impact of Wireless Electronic Medical Record System on the Quality of Patient Documentation by Emergency Field Responders during a Disaster Mass­Casualty Exercise.In Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 26, pp 268­275 doi:10.1017/S1049023X11006480
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L.A. Lenert, D. Kirsh, W.G. Griswold, C. Buono, J.B. Lyon, R. Rao, and T.C. Chan (forthcoming). Design and Evaluation of a Wireless Electronic Health Records System for Field Care in Mass Casualty Settings. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. (forthcoming)
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Kirsh, D. Creative Cognition in Choreography, in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2011.
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Kirsh, D. Comparing tangible and virtual exploration of archaeological objects, in (Ed.) M Forte. Cyber-Archaeology. Hadrian Books, Oxford pp 119-124: 2010
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Kirsh, D. Thinking with the Body, in (eds) S. Ohlsson R. Catrambone, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 2010. Pp 2864-2869.
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Kirsh, D. Thinking with External Representations. AI and Society. Springer: London, (2010) 25:441–454.
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Kirsh, D., et al. Choreographic Methods for Creating Novel, High Quality Dance. 5th International workshop on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement. 2009
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Kirsh, D. Interaction, External Representation and Sense Making. In Taatgen N, van Rijn, H, Schomaker, L., (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2009
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Kirsh, D. Projection, Problem Space and Anchors. In Taatgen N, van Rijn, H, Schomaker, L., (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2009
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Kirsh, D. Knowledge, Explicit vs Implicit. The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Bayne, T., Cleeremans, A., Wilken, P. (Eds.) (pp. 397-402). Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Kirsh, D. Problem Solving and Situated Cognition. In Robbins, P. and Aydede, M. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp 264-306. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Kirsh, D. Explaining Artifact Evolution. In Malafouris, L. and Renfrew, C. (eds.) The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting the boundaries of the mind. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2010.
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Kirsh, D. Distributed Cognition, A Methodological Note Pragmatics & Cognition, 14:2 (2006), 249-262.
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Knoche, H., de Meer, H., Kirsh, D. Extremely Economical: How Key Frames Affect Consonant Perception under Different Audio-Visual Skews In Proceedings of 16th World Congress on Ergonomics IEA 2006.
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Kirsh, D, N. Peterson, L. Lenert. Toward An Ontology of Geo-Reasoning to Aid Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction. In American Medical Informatics Assoc Conference, pp. 400-404, 2005. (Winner of Diana Forsythe Award for best paper in Medical Informatics 2005).
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Kirsh, D. Multi-tasking and cost structure: implications for design. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 2005
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Kirsh, D. Metacognition, Distributed Cognition and Visual Design. To appear in Cognition, Education and Communication Technology (eds.) Peter Gardinfors & Petter Johansson, Lawrence Erlbaum 2004
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Bailey M, TM Rebotier & D Kirsh. Quantifying the Relative Roles of Shadows, Stereopsis, and Focal Accommodation in 3D Visualization. In The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing. 2003.
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Image-Dependent Interaction of Imagery and Vision. Thomas P. Rebotier, David J. Kirsh and Laraine McDonough. In The American Journal of Psychology , Vol. 116, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003) , pp. 343-366
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Kirsh, D. Implicit and Explicit Representation, in (Nader, L. et al) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing, 2003 pp, 478-481
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See also the much longer article where these ideas are best worked out:

Kirsh, D. When is Information Explicitly Represented? The Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. (1990) pp. 340-365. Re-issued Oxford University Press. 1992.
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Kirsh, D. The Context of Work, Human computer Interaction, 2001 Vol 16(2-4), pp. 305-322
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Kirsh, D. Changing the Rules: Architecture in the new Millennium. Convergence. The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 2001 Vol. 7(2) pp 113-125.
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Kirsh, D. A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload, Intellectica, 2000 pp 19-51.
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Hollan J., E., Hutchins, & D., Kirsh. Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(2), pp. 174-196, 2000.
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Kirsh, D. Distributed Cognition, Coordination and Environment Design, Proceedings of the European conference on Cognitive Science 1999 pp 1-11.
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Maglio, P., Matlock, T., Raphaely, D., Chernicky, B., & Kirsh D. Interactive skill in Scrabble. In Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 1999.
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Knoche, H., De Meer, H., Kirsh, D. Utility Curves: Mean opinion scores considered biased. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Quality of Service 1999.
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Kirsh, D. Adaptable Rooms and Cognitive Workflow, in Streitz, N., et al. (Eds.), Cooperative Buildings - Integrating Information, Organization, and Architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer: Heidelberg, pp 94-112, 1998.
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Elvins, T., Nadeau, D., Schul, R., Kirsh, D. Worldlets: 3D Thumbnails for 3D Browsing. Proceedings of the Computer Human Interaction Society. Pp 163-170. 1998.
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Kirsh, D. Interactivity and Multimedia Interfaces. Instructional Sciences. 25:79-96, 1997
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Elvins, T., Nadeau, D., Kirsh, D. Worldlets - 3D Thumbnails for Wayfinding in Virtual Environments, UIST97, pp 17-26 1997
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Kirsh, D. Adapting the Environment instead of Oneself. Adaptive Behavior 4(3-4):415-452, 1996
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Kirsh, D. Complementary strategies: Why we use our hands when we think. In Johanna D. Moore and Jill Fain Lehman (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Pp. 212-217. 1995.
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Kirsh, D. The Intelligent Use of Space. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 73, Number 1-2, pp. 31-68, (1995).
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Kirsh, D. and P. Maglio. On Distinguishing Epistemic from Pragmatic Actions. Cognitive Science. (1995).
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Kirsh, D. and P. Maglio, Some Epistemic Benefits of Action: Tetris a Case Study, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Cognitive Science Society, Morgan Kaufmann. 1992.
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Kirsh, D. and P. Maglio, Perceptive Actions in Tetris, in Control of Selective Perception, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium 1992
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Kirsh, D., and P. Maglio, Reaction and reflection in Tetris. In J. Hendler (Ed.), Artificial intelligence planning systems. Proceedings of the First Annual International Conference (AIPS92). San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufman. (1992)
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Kirsh, D. et al. Architectures of Intelligent Systems, in Exploring Brain Functions: Models in Neuroscience. (1992).
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Kirsh, D. PDP Learnability and Innate Knowledge of Language. In S. Davis (Ed.), Connectionism: Theory and practice (Volume III of The Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, 297-322). NY: Oxford University Press. (1992)
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Foundations of AI: The Big Issues. Artificial Intelligence. (1991).
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Kirsh, D. Today the Earwig Tomorrow Man? Artificial Intelligence. (1991). Reprinted in Artificial Life, ed M, Boden, OUP. (1996)
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Kirsh, D. When is Information Explicitly Represented? The Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science. (1990) pp 340-365. Re-issued Oxford University Press. (1992)
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Kirsh, D. Putting a Price on Cognition, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Supp. volume XXVI, 1987. pp. 119-135, Reprinted in Connectionism and Philosophy of Mind. T. Horgan, J. Tienson, (ed), Kluwer. 1990
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Kirsh, D. Preparation et Improvisation Reseaux: Communication Technologie Societe. (1990) Sept-Octobre, pp. 111-120.
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