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857Situated and distributed cognition in artifact negotiation and trade-specific skills: A cognitive ethnography of Kashmiri carpet weaving practiceTheory and Psychology 28 (4): 451-475. 2018.This article describes various ways actors in Kashmiri carpet weaving practice deploy a range of artifacts, from symbolic, to material, to hybrid, in order to achieve diverse cognitive accomplishments in their particular task domains: information representation, inter and intra-domain communication, distribution of cognitive labor across people and time, coordination of team activities, and carrying of cultural heritage. In this repertoire, some artifacts position themselves as naïve tools in th…Read more
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579Cognitive dimensions of talim: evaluating weaving notation through cognitive dimensions (CDs) frameworkCognitive Processing 0-0. 2016.The design process in Kashmiri carpet weaving is distributed over a number of actors and artifacts and is mediated by a weaving notation called talim. The script encodes entire design in practice-specific symbols. This encoded script is decoded and interpreted via design-specific conventions by weavers to weave the design embedded in it. The cognitive properties of this notational system are described in the paper employing cognitive dimensions (CDs) framework of Green (People and computers, Cam…Read more
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426Cognitive bearing of techno-advances in Kashmiri carpet designingAI and Society 0-0. 2016.The design process in Kashmiri carpet weaving is a distributed process encompassing a number of actors and artifacts. These include a designer called naqash who creates the design on graphs, and a coder called talim-guru who encodes that design in a specific notation called talim which is deciphered and interpreted by the weavers to weave the design. The technological interventions over the years have influenced these artifacts considerably and triggered major changes in the practice, from heral…Read more
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46Kant and the simulation hypothesisAI and Society 30 (2): 183-192. 2015.Computational imagination (CI) conceives imagination as an agent’s simulated sensorimotor interaction with the environment in the absence of sensory feedback, predicting consequences based on this interaction (Marques and Holland in Neurocomputing 72:743–759, 2009). Its bedrock is the simulation hypothesis whereby imagination resembles seeing or doing something in reality as both involve similar neural structures in the brain (Hesslow in Trends Cogn Sci 6(6):242–247, 2002). This paper raises two…Read more
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38Cognitive bearing of techno-advances in Kashmiri carpet designingAI and Society 32 (4): 509-524. 2017.The design process in Kashmiri carpet weaving is a distributed process encompassing a number of actors and artifacts. These include a designer called naqash who creates the design on graphs, and a coder called talim-guru who encodes that design in a specific notation called talim which is deciphered and interpreted by the weavers to weave the design. The technological interventions over the years have influenced these artifacts considerably and triggered major changes in the practice, from heral…Read more
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29Erratum to: Cognitive bearing of techno-advances in Kashmiri carpet designingAI and Society 32 (4): 525-525. 2017.
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26Cognitivism or Situated-Distributed Cognition? Assessing Kashmiri Carpet Weaving Practice from the Two Theoretical ParadigmsReview of Philosophy and Psychology 11 (4): 917-937. 2019.Cognition is predominantly seen as information processing in multidisciplinary landscape of cognition studies, despite having had a formidable opposition from embodied and embedded perspectives in the last few decades. This paper analyses cognitive processes involved in different task domains of Kashmiri carpet weaving practice from the theoretical frameworks of cognitivism and situated-distributed cognition. After introducing the practice and its task domains (Section −1), paradigmatic cognitiv…Read more
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13Processing of grid-based design representations: a qualitative analysis of concurrent think-aloud protocolsAI and Society 38 (1): 21-33. 2023.The squared paper or graphs are grid-based design representations used in engineering, industrial and craft design practices wherein designs are drawn over symmetrical grids. This paper reports grid-processing strategies undertaken by actors in a native craft practice, viz. Kashmiri carpet-weaving having three task contexts: (1) _design_, wherein designs are drawn on graph sheets and color scheme given by assigning practice-specific symbolic codes to the motifs by designers; (2) _coding_, wherei…Read more
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Laurentian UniversityVisiting Scholar
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions |
History of Western Philosophy |
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