TECHNOLOGIES FOR TRAINING AND INTENTIONAL STANCE.

Interactions with digital technologies can be based on the adoption of relational strategies which assume that these technologies have mental states. There are at least two reasons to support the hypothesis that intentional stance is the priority relational strategy. First, the evolutionary path that, at an individual level, leads us to take on a design stance towards artifacts and which appears slower, and later, than that relating to the intentional stance. Second, the fact that the recognition of interactive digital technologies as simple artifacts is something that requires commitment and is not immediate: when overloaded we can slide from design stance towards intentional stance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]