Week 8 A05
Distributed cognition & Design
TA: Sean Huang
Each group choose 1 note-taker, public one post on padlet per question (be concise, visible). Canvas submission: everyone
Cognition
All forms of knowing and awareness, such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, and problem solving.
Distributed Cognition
What is distributed cognition?
Distributed Cognition
Distributed Cognition:
To understand the coordination “among individuals and artifacts, that is, to understand how individual agents align and share within a distributed process” (Nardi, 1996, p. 39)
Space: “How we manage the spatial arrangement of items around us… is an integral part of the way we think.” (Kirsh, 1995)
Culture: “Distributed cognition sees real-world cognition as a process that involves the interaction of the consequences of past experience (for individual, group, and material world) with the affordances of the present.” (Hollan et al., 2000)
Context: “Non-biological external resources (technologies, media, places…etc.) vary on a whole range of dimensions … transmissibility across instantiations, capacity as symbol systems, the constraints on the ways in which information can be retrieved, the context-dependence of their use…” (Sutton, 2006)[Edited]
Hollan, Hutchins, & Kirsh, 2000
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/353485.353487
E. Hutchins, 2020
https://hci.ucsd.edu/102a/readings/RootsSocialityHutchins.pdf
Distributed Cognition
Why?
Why do we need to distribute our cognition?
Why?
Ways we distribute our cognition
What are some ways we distribute our cognition? What are some real-life examples?
Ways we distribute our cognition
What could we do to upgrade?
What are some daily items we can upgrade/improve based on our understanding of how knowledge is distributed?
What could we do to upgrade?
What can we do to make our instructors better?