Transmission of human experience is essential for many purposes. It has two aspects: content and social relations. Digital technologies can solve some of the classic issues around the capture and transmission of human experience. Using these new technical affordances as a basis, this article presents a framework to capture and describe human activity and experience based on video and cooperative explicitation of activity trajectories with the subject, using a transition model inspired by the formalism of dynamical systems. The article also introduces this special issue, ‘Digitize and Transfer’, and gives an overview of its contents.
La transmission de l’expérience humaine est un enjeu fondamental pour l’espèce. Elle a deux aspects: le contenu et la relation sociale. Les technologies numériques peuvent résoudre certains des problèmes classiques de la capture et la transmission de l’expérience humaine. En s’appuyant sur ces nouvelles possibilités techniques, ce document présente un nouveau cadre pour capturer et décrire l’activité humaine et l’expérience. On utilise la vidéo et un entretien d’explicitation des trajectoires d’activité avec les sujets, en faisant appel au modèle des ‘transitions’ inspiré du formalisme des systèmes dynamiques. Ce document introduit également ce numéro spécial ‘Numériser et transmettre’, et donne un aperçu critique des articles qui le composent.
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