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puter interaction Manuel Imaz and software engineering
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David Benyon
Manuel Imaz is an independent consultant and “An excellent and detailed demonstration of the ways in which cognitive The evolution of the concept of mind in cognitive sci-
has a . from the School puting at science provides new tools for software design.” ence over the past twenty-five years creates new ways
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Napier University, Edinburgh. David Benyon is Mark Turner, Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science, Case to think about the interaction of people puters.
Professor of puter Systems at Napier Western Reserve University New ideas about embodiment, metaphor as a funda-
University. . mental cognitive process, and conceptual integration—
“For too many years, software engineers puter scientists have a blending of older concepts that gives rise to new,
deliberately designed human beings out of the systems they developed. In . emergent properties—have e increasingly impor-
Designing with Blends, Benyon and Imaz bring to these fields the sensibili- tant in software engineering (SE) and puter
ty of cognitive scientists: a concern for how ordinary people think, not sim- interaction (HCI). If puting was based on algo-
ply how systems work. In the process, they show that conceptual blending rithms, mathematical theories, and formal notations,
is an even more powerful tool for good software design than metaphors . now the use of stories, metaphors, and blends can con-
were. As we move into the age of puting, designing with tribute to well-informed, sensitive software design.
blends will e what all software programmers do, whether they are In Designing with Blends, Manuel Imaz and David
aware of it or not.” Benyon