Links between enaction and interactional approaches

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I'm writing stuff for the phD and I'm reflecting on a project I worked on a while back with Reuben, where we were trying to crack the idea of 'groups' of elements in a presentation app.
As we worked on the solution, and it became more elaborate with implementation feeding back to experience and ixd etc, we put it aside to work on a seemingly unrelated concept.
Turns out, that the newer concept, views, was our solution to groups. And in reflection it was a great example of an interactional approach trumping an informational one. (see http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094570 for more on that lovely theory)

What I also found interesting, both then and now, is that a physically engaging experience helped to surface this conceptual link between our work and the work of Boehner et al.

Enaction privileges an interactional perspective? Maybe. Worth looking at.

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