Situated cognition draws a variety of perspectives, from an anthropological study of human behavior in the context of technology-mediated work, or within communities of practiceLave & Wenger, 1991 to the ecological psychology of the perception-action cycleJames J. Gibson, 1986 and intentional dynamics,Shaw, Kadar, Sim & Reppenger, 1992 and even research on robotics with work on autonomous agents at NASA and elsewhere (e.g., work by W. J. Clancey). Early attempts to define situated cognition focused on contrasting the emerging theory with information processing theories dominant in cognitive psychology.Bredo, 1994
