Putting the horse before the cart: formulating and exploring methods for studying cognitive technology

The First International Conference on Cognitive Technology (CT´95, Hong Kong, 1995) explored a radically new way of thinking about the impact computer technology has on humans, especially on the human mind. Our main aim at that time was a consideration of these effects with respect to rendering the interface between people and computers more humane. And we exemplified our approach by pointing to existing trends and tendencies in the vast new loosely organized field of research often referred to as `HCI´ (`human computer interaction´; the replacement for the politically and factually `incorrect´ MMI, `man machine interface´)