Academic development as distributed cognition and practice

15 Scientific cognition as distributed cognition

After introducing several different approaches to distributed cognition, I consider the application of these ideas to modern science, especially the role of instrumentation and visual representations in science. I then examine several apparent difficulties with taking distributed cognition seriously. After arguing that these difficulties are only apparent, I note the ease with which distributed...

Team communication and coordination as distributed cognition

In this paper we argue that it is necessary to study the communicative and coordinative practices in order to understand how the successful team operation of dynamic systems is constituted. We present a fourfold criticism of the view where communication is treated as the transmission of information and where coordination is regarded as the transfer of commands between individuals. Instead we ad...

Modelling Human-computer Interaction as Distributed Cognition

In this article we wish to describe an approach to modelling human-computer interaction (HCI) based on recent theoretical developments in cognitive science, namely distributed cognition research (DC). There are of course many approaches to modelling HCI ranging from task-oriented models to so-called contextualised models such as Activity Theory. The motivation of this paper is not to provide ju...

Parallel distributed processing : implications for cognition and development

Autism and distributed cognition

Autism is a condition that affects behaviour, communication and cognition. Treatment and support for the person with autism is multidisciplinary and will often include the use of assistive technologies. This exploratory study aims to describe current practice in the support of people with autism and identify opportunities for new digital assistive technologies. The scope includes the procedures...