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	Distributed cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Distributed cognition is a school of psychology developed in the 1990s by Edwin Hutchins.
		Using insights from sociology, cognitive science, and the psychology of Vygotsky (cf activity theory) it emphasizes the social aspects of cognition.
		Distributed cognition is a useful approach for (re)designing social aspects of cognition by putting emphasis on the individual and his/her environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distributed_cognition (230 words)

	SAP Design Guild -- Distributed Cognition - Understanding Requirements Beyond a Single User
		Distributed cognition is one such new approach, which indicates the move from the information-processing paradigm to new paradigms that go beyond it.
		Distributed cognition extends this notion by including interactions between people and their environment, in addition to phenomena that emerge in social interactions.
		Distributed cognition also holds that the study of cognition is not separable from the study of culture because agents live in a complex cultural environment.
	www.sapdesignguild.org /editions/edition7/print_distrib_cognition.asp (1354 words)

	Distributed Cognition, Coordination and Environment Design
		The type of principles which cognitive engineers need to design better work environments are principles which explain interactivity and distributed cognition: how human agents interact with themselves and others, their work spaces, and the resources and constraints that populate those spaces.
		From the standpoint of distributed cognition, success in a task, particularly a task involving several participants, is a shifting coalition of agent-environment constraints and resources.
		In short, insofar as distributed cognition takes a more group orientation to problem solving and activity management, it operates from a different mind set than what is now the classical approach to problem solving and it provides a different set of explanatory tools.
	adrenaline.ucsd.edu /kirsh/articles/Italy/published.html (6703 words)

	Distributed Cognition
		Distributed cognition extends beyond the individual to encompass interactions between people and with resources and materials in the environment.
		Distributed cognition means more than that cognitive processes are socially distributed across members of a group.
		Distributed cognition recognizes that culture shapes the cognitive processes of systems that transcend the boundaries of individuals.
	www.mines.edu /~crader/cs498/TextNotes/Distributed_Cognition.html (1522 words)

	CSCL Theories
		Cognitive apprenticeship is a term for the instructional process that teachers provide and support students with scaffolds as the students develop cognitive strategies.
		Cognitive apprenticeship is a culture that permits peers to learn through their interactions, to build stories about common experiences, and to share the knowledge building experiences with the group.
		Teaching Teleapprenticeships model is an example that based on the theory of cognitive apprenticeship, developed by The College of Education at the University of Illinois.
	www.edb.utexas.edu /csclstudent/Dhsiao/theories.html (4765 words)

	Currently, the field of Collaboration / Cooperative Learning (CL) is a burgeoning enterprise, important for researchers ...
		However, distributed cognition settings may diminish the development of these models despite the advantages of perceptual anchors.
		Ninety participants were randomly assigned to the distributed cognition condition, and then randomly assigned to groups of three.
		Intelligent interfaces or collaborative technologies may be needed to support teamwork wherein cognition can be integrated with the perceptual features that define the context of the problem.
	ist.psu.edu /faculty_pages/mcneese/ist413/HFES02.final.htm (3109 words)

	GreenBiz \| News Center \| Columns
		In this system, cognition is not a function of individuals, but an emergent property of the data, tools, individuals, and relationships that characterize the system: “thinking” is done just as much by the navigation chart as by the quartermaster.
		The implications of this analysis of socially distributed cognition for industrial ecologists, environmental researchers, and policymakers are obvious.
		The advantage of such an approach is that the human components of the system need not be changed at all: The socially distributed cognitive system becomes “environmentally conscious,” while designers continue in their existing patterns.
	www.greenbiz.com /news/columns_third.cfm?NewsID=28386 (710 words)

	Distributed Cognitions
		The view from the social constructivist’s standpoint of is that individuals cannot be separated from the society; moreover, cognition is distributed among social groups and between a person’s internal and external structures.
		Weaving these two threads, Edwin Hutchins developed distributed cognitions theory as a new paradigm for rethinking all domains of cognitive phenomena, with a special focus on human-computer interactions as an integrated framework (Hutchins, 2000; Hollan, Hutchins, and Kirsh, 2000).
		Although many learning theories are considered social learning; distributed cognition makes two distinctions: first, it views interaction as a source of novel structure; and second, it concerns the role of the cognitive artifacts (the material environment) in cognitive activity because they developed over time.
	coe.ksu.edu /EDETC786/Web-Curriculum/Elaine/DC/index.htm (285 words)

	EServer TC Library: Learning to Do Knowledge Work in Systems of Distributed Cognition
		In workplaces engaging in knowledge work (where knowledge is the primary product), distributed cognition aims at a less stable goal than the one that Hutchins describes for ship navigation.
		A study of six summer interns in an engineering development center shows that, for them and their more experienced colleagues, learning did not precede activity but rather was the means by which they remained attuned to activity and able to function.
		Cognition was distributed not only among people but also among people and their tools.
	tc.eserver.org /24554.html (241 words)

	Distributed Constructionism
		Distributed constructionism extends constructionist theory, focusing specifically on situations in which more than one person is involved in the design and construction activities.
		It draws on recent research in "distributed cognition" (Salomon, 1994), recognizing that cognition and intelligence are not properties of an individual person but rather arise from interactions of a person with the surrounding environment (including other people and artifacts).
		Distributed constructionism asserts that a particularly effective way for knowledge-building communities to form and grow is through collaborative activities that involve not just the exchange of information but the design and construction of meaningful artifacts.
	web.media.mit.edu /~mres/papers/Distrib-Construc/Distrib-Construc.html (2545 words)

	AAA96 - 0-062 - Culture as Distributed Cognition
		Messages in the language are, at the same time, messages about the language--and something about the combination of the nature of the mental apparatus (and/or predispositions) that we bring to their use and the conditions of our learning of them separates out the two kinds of effects.
		The distribution of emotional prototypical states associated with romantic love will be seen as "motivated" in the sense that they are related to each other and that, for example, individuals will attempt to change scenarios that trigger prototypical sad feelings to those scenarios associated with "happy" feelings.
		The cognitive revolution of the 1950's spawned development of the Turing Machine model of Mind (TMM) entailing both the formalism and practice of casting human cognition in the image of a digital computer.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Cultcog/aaa96.html (3136 words)

	ECS EPrints Service - Distributed Cognition: Cognizing, Autonomy and the Turing Test
		Some of the papers in this special issue [of Pragmatics and Cognition, on Cognitive Technology and Distributed Cognition] distribute cognition between what is going on inside individual cognizers’ heads and their outside worlds; others distribute cognition among different individual cognizers.
		It is not clear that distributed cognition could pass the Turing Test.
		Distributed Cognition: Special issue of Pragmatics and Cognition 14:3 (2006).
	eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk /12368 (296 words)

	Preface: Distributed Cognition and Educa... (Abstract) [AACE Digital Library] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rather, it is suggested that cognition extends beyond the skin, essentially being distributed along two main dimensions; material and social.
		Assuming that an individual is performing a certain task, the material dimension of the distribution refers to the incorporation of all kinds of mental and physical artifacts in which cognition is encapsulated.
		On the other hand, the social dimension of the distribution of cognition refers to the involvement of social others who provide assistance in many ways during task execution by functioning as cognitive resources.
	dl.aace.org /9137 (204 words)

	Middleware for Distributed Cognition
		The Middleware for Distributed Cognition (MDC) project was funded by the JISC under the Frameworks Programme.
		A distributed search brings back information from many sources and should be presented in a simple and consistent manner that allows learner to inspect the information about a resource (the reference or metadata) to find the relevant items.
		Distributed cognition research emphasizes the importance of seeing knowledge as being organized and manipulated between individuals (as opposed to residing in a single person's mind).
	users.ox.ac.uk /~howardn/Publish/MDC_Final_Report_v.1.5.htm (4130 words)

	Situated cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Situated cognition is a movement in cognitive psychology which derives from pragmatism, Gibsonian ecological psychology, ethnomethodology, the theories of Vygotsky (activity theory) and the writings of Heidegger.
		This is similar to the view of "situated activity" proposed by Lucy Suchman, "social context" proposed by Giuseppe Mantovani, and "Situated Learning" proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger.
		Situated cognition emphasises studies of human behaviour that have 'ecological validity': that is, which take place in real situations (i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Situated_cognition (291 words)

	The WorldWideBrain: Using the WorldWideWeb to Implement Globally Distributed Cognition
		Clearly, whatever the cognitive status of the internal processes of the neuron, no single computer that exists today can come anywhere near to emulating the computational power of the human brain.
		But the point is that Java, in principle, opens up the possibility for the WWW to act as a dynamic, distributed cognitive system.
		Under the distributed ownership model, it becomes imperative that the WWB is developed in such a way that individuals and organizations can see some benefit from incorporating their own Web pages into the WorldWideBrain.
	goertzel.org /papers/wwb.html (4147 words)

	COGSCI 131: Distributed Cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The broad concensus in the cognitive science community is that the individual is the best unit of analysis for human cognition.
		We will focus on how cognition extends beyond the boundaries of the person to include the environment, artifacts, social interactions, and culture.
		Major themes are the study of socially distributed cognition and the role of artifacts in human cognition.
	hci.ucsd.edu /131 (305 words)

	CiteULike: Knowledge Management and the Design of Distributed Cognition Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Through the use of philosophy, we examine the role of knowledge management in the design of distributed cognition systems.
		The resulting design principles are proposed as a framework for the design of information technology that supports distributed cognition and knowledge management in organizations.
		The resulting design principles are proposed as a framework for the design of information technology that supports distributed cognition and knowledge management in organizations.}, author = {Richardson, S. citeulike-article-id = {559265}, journal = {System Sciences, 2005.
	www.citeulike.org /user/leei/article/559265 (339 words)

	Collective Cognition
		Rather than repeating myself about what I mean by "collective cognition," I refer you to my review of Ed Hutchins's
		introduction to the 2002 SFI Workshop on Collective Cognition I co-organized (that introduction is primarily based on an essay I wrote as a distraction from finishing my dissertation).
		But it's limited by the fact that Surowiecki has essentially one picture of how collective cognition could work, namely averaging a lot of guesses which are randomly and independently distributed around the true answer --- in other words, the central limit theorem.
	cscs.umich.edu /~crshalizi/notebooks/collective-cognition.html (1475 words)

	Distributed Cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"The Distributed Cognition (dcog) approach was developed by Ed Hutchins and his colleagues at University California, San Diego in the mid to late 80s as a radically new paradigm for rethinking all domains of cognitive phenomena.
		The traditional view of cognition is that it is a localised phenomenon that is best explained in terms of information processing at the level of the individual.
		Technical implications of distributed cognition on the design on interactive learning environments.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DistributedCognition (130 words)

	CiteULike: Analysing Human-Computer Interaction as Distributed Cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this paper, we present a new approach to interaction modelling based on the concept of information resource.
		The approach is inspired by recent distributed cognition (DC) literature but develops a model that applies specifically to human-computer interaction (HCI) modelling.
		There are of course many approaches to modelling HCI and the motivation of this paper is not to offer yet another approach.
	www.citeulike.org /user/livingthingdan/article/891086 (232 words)

	UCSD DCOG and HCI Lab
		elcome to the UCSD Distributed Cognition and Human Computer Interaction Laboratory.
		Research in our lab ranges across cognitive science.
		Our work combines ethnographic observation and controlled experimentation to support theoretically informed design of digital work materials and collaborative workplaces.
	hci.ucsd.edu /lab (50 words)

	e-Literate: "Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Sciences" Site Theme
		While I have never personally met the guy, I find that his articles usually have something interesting and sensible to say.
		There are some fairly specific mechanisms by which self organization works (at least in biology); I’m going to have to spend some time looking at what we actually know about how emergence works in groups of organisms.
		Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Sciences and has 0 comments.
	mfeldstein.com /index.php/weblog/category_posts/C12 (2262 words)

	Middleware for distributed cognition : JISC
		The overall goal of the project is to provide robust open source software that insulates developers of academic user agents from the complexities of distributed searching, resource metadata aggregation and reading list creation.
		A set of fully functional JSP GUIs that enable interoperable distributed searching using Z39.50 and SRW.
		Ultimately the project addresses the need of educational institutions to move away from monolithic library systems to a more distributed way of provisioning content to learners.
	www.jisc.ac.uk /index.cfm?name=mdc (803 words)

	Journals and Distributed Cognition - The David Allen Company
		Anyway, my latest light bulb is the combined potential effect of journaling and distributed cognition.
		David coaches us through the mindsweep, which helps us get all our open loops down on paper so that we can consider what to do with them.
		This “distributed cognition” will produce a lot of items for us to consider.
	www.davidco.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3684 (1175 words)

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