Socially distributed cognition in loosely coupled systems

AI and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-400

  Perry, Mark ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordination; CSCW; Organisational communication; Problem solving; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION; CSCW; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; ILL-STRUCTURED PROBLEMS; LOOSELY COUPLED SYSTEMS; ORGANISATIONAL; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 78049316291     PISSN: 09515666     EISSN: 14355655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-010-0267-5     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Alač M, Hutchins E (2004) I see what you are saying: action as cognition in fMRI brain mapping practice. J Cogn Cult 4: 629-661.
2. Artman H, Wærn Y (1999) Distributed cognition in an emergency co-ordination center. Cogn Tech Work 1: 237-246.
3. Blanford A, Furniss D (2006) DiCoT: a methodology for applying distributed cognition to the design of teamworking systems. In: Gilroy S, Harrison M (eds) DSV-IS'05 (International workshop on design, specification and verification of interactive systems), LNCS 3941. Springer-Verlag, The Netherlands, pp 26-38.
4. Engestrom Y, Middleton D (1996) Cognition and communication at work: distributed cognition in the workplace. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
5. Fields R, Wright P, Marti P, Palmonari M (1998) Air traffic control as a distributed cognitive system: a case study of external representations. In: Green TRG, Bannon L, Warren CP, Buckley J (eds) Proceedings of the ninth European conference on cognitive ergonomics. European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE), Le Chesnay.
6. Garfinkel H (1967) Studies in ethnomethodology. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
7. Giere RN (2004) The problem of agency in scientific distributed cognitive systems. J Cogn Cult 4: 759-774.
8. Grudin J (1994) Eight challenges for developers. Commun ACM 37: 93-104.
9. Halverson CA (1995) Inside the cognitive workplace: new technology and air traffic control. PhD Thesis. Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
10. Halverson CA (2002) Activity theory and distributed cognition: or what does CSCW need to do with theories? J Comput Support Coop Work 11: 243-267.
11. Hammersley M, Atkinson P (1995) Ethnography: principles in practice, 2nd edn. Routledge, London.
12. Hazelhurst BL (1994) Fishing for Cognition: An ethnography of fishing practice in a community on the west coast of Sweden. PhD Thesis. Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
13. Heath C, Luff P (1991) Collaborative activity and technological design: task coordination in London Underground control rooms. In: Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on computer supported cooperative work, Amsterdam, pp. 65-80.
14. Heritage J (1984) Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Polity Press, Cambridge and New York.
15. Holder BE (1999) Cognition in flight: understanding cockpits as cognitive systems. Dissertation, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
16. Hollan JD, Hutchins E, Kirsh D (2001) Distributed cognition: a new foundation for human-computer interaction. ACM Trans Comput-Hum Interact 7: 174-196.
17. Hughes JA, Randall D, Shapiro D (1992) Faltering from ethnography to design. CSCW 92: sharing perspectives. In: Proceedings of the conference on computer supported cooperative work. ACM Press, NY, pp 115-122.
18. Hutchins E (1991) Organizing work by adaptation. Organ Sci 2: 14-39.
19. Hutchins E (1995a) Cognition in the wild. MIT Press, Bradford.
20. Hutchins E (1995b) How a cockpit remembers its speeds. Cogn Sci 19: 265-288.
21. Hutchins E, Klausen T (1991) Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit. In: Engeström Y, Middleton D (eds) Communication and cognition at work. CUP, Cambridge, pp 15-34.
22. McGarry, B. (2005). Things to think with: understanding interactions with artefacts in engineering design. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Queensland, St Lucia.
23. Murray D (1993) An ethnographic study of graphic designers. In: Proceedings of the third European Conference on computer-supported cooperative work. Kluwer, The Netherlands, pp 295-309.
24. Newell A, Simon HA (1972) Human problem solving. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
25. Norman DA (1993) Things that make us smart. Addison-Wesley, Reading.
26. Perry M (2003) Distributed cognition. In: Carroll JM (ed) HCI models, theories, and frameworks: toward an interdisciplinary science. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, pp 193-223.
27. Resnick LB, Levine JM, Teasley SD (1991) Perspectives on socially shared cognition. American Psychological Association, Hyattsville.
28. Rogers Y, Ellis J (1994) Distributed cognition: an alternative framework for analysing and explaining collaborative working. J Inf Technol 9: 119-128.
29. Salomon G (1993) Distributed cognitions: psychological and educational considerations. Cambridge University Press, New York.
30. Simon HA (1973) The structure of ill-structured problems. Artif Intell 4: 181-204.
31. Simon HA (1981) The sciences of the artificial, 2nd edn. MIT Press, Cambridge.
32. Strauss A (1985) Work and the division of labour. Sociol Q 26: 1-19.
33. van Maanen J (1988) Tales of the field: on writing ethnography. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
34. Wright PC, Fields RE, Richardson MD (2000) Analyzing human-computer interaction as distributed cognition: the resources model. Hum Comput Interact 15: 1-41.