Distributed Cognition and The Social Web Brynn M. Evans Reboot 10 University of California Copenhagen, Denmark at San Diego 27 June 2008
Jan 28, 2015
Distributed Cognition and
The Social Web
Brynn M. Evans Reboot 10University of California Copenhagen, Denmark at San Diego 27 June 2008
About me
PhD student studying cognitive science
focus: how (if) social web services facilitate information discovery & sensemaking
BRAIN • BEHAVIOR • COMPUTATION
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
psychology linguistics
computerscience
anthropology
neuroscience
human-computer interaction
philosophy
the emphasis on finding and describing ‘knowledge structures’ that are somewhere ‘inside’ the individual encourages us to overlook the fact that human cognition is always situated in a complex sociocultural world and cannot be unaffected by it
DISTRIBUTED COGNITION
Ed HutchinsCognition in the Wild (1995) p.xiii
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Source: Ed Hutchins
What DISTRIBUTED COGNITION is NOT:
• NOT the study of social networks• NOT the same as “collective intelligence”• NOT the “wisdom of crowds” effect• NOT a type of cognition
• other people• material artifacts• culture
What DISTRIBUTED COGNITION is:
Source: Ed Hutchins
Source: Rod Stockwell
• friends, buddy lists
• interfaces, social objects
• social roles, rules
• other people
• material artifacts
• culture
In the real world In the online world
What is the appropriate unit of analysis?
Source: Chris Messina
What is the appropriate unit of analysis?
What is the appropriate unit of analysis?
Applying the theory...
Individual user:
Information:
Your thoughts...
References:
- Ed Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild (1995)
- G. Salomon, Editor’s introduction to Distributed Cognitions (1997)
BOOKS
ARTICLES
- Ed Hutchins, How a cockpit remembers its speed (1995)
- Yvonne Rogers, A brief introduction to distributed cognition (1997)
- Hollan, Hutchins & Kirsh, Distributed Cognition: a new foundation for human-computer interaction research. (2002)
- C. Halverson, Activity theory and distributed cognition: Or what does CSCW need to DO with theories? (2002)