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9436 Distributed Cognition, Coordination and Environment Design
http://icl-server.ucsd.edu/~kirsh/Articles/Italy/published.html
By David Kirsh. Abstract: "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. A first step in developing these principles is to clarify the fundamental concepts of environment, coordination, and behavioural function. Using simple examples, I review changes the distributed perspective forces on these basic notions."
Distributed cognitive was fashionable a while back, it seems to be making a comeback. Embeddedness in social networks is definitely important; people do come up with better ideas if they can pass them through their local network... but even that's the wrong metaphor, because distributed cognition says that ideas don't exist in individuals like that, necessarily. They're smeared out across the group, just like ideas in the head exist somehow in parallel, and only come together when reified into words. Linearised. Digested.

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