Situated action
Also known as: Situated cognition, Situated practice
A theoretical framework from sociology and HCI holding that human actions and decisions are fundamentally shaped by the specific social, material, and temporal context in which they occur, rather than being pre-planned or rule-following. In explainable AI design, situated action emphasizes that explanations cannot be prescriptively programmed but must emerge through interaction and mutual meaning-making between the system and users within their particular circumstances.
Category: research methodology · human-computer interaction · theory
Related: Explainable AI · Human-computer interaction · Embodied cognition