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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Distributed Cognition"”.
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Story as a Means to Distributed Cognition in Dispute Mediation
… activity is on the present and future. Framed in distributed cognition theory, this study considers mediation as an activity and examines functions served by storytelling, the relevance of past history to both the disputants and to the mediator; and the patterns of storytelling and story listening …
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Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management
… <p>Exploring health information management as a distributed sociotechnical assemblage is the conceptual approach of this research. A distributed cognition perspective lends insight to drawing boundaries and establishing connections of personal health information management practices in …
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User Experiences with Data-Intensive Bioinformatics Resources: A Distributed Cognition Perspective
… in data extraction and analyses arising from distributed and heterogeneous databases, user interface inconsistencies and discrepancies in results. Moreover, the interdisciplinary nature of modern science adds to significant gaps in scientists' performance caused by limited proficiency levels …
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Acute-To-Home Care Nursing Handoffs: Distributed Cognition Across Patterns of Knowledge
… an integrated theoretical framework encompassing cognition theory, patterns of knowledge theory, and clinical communication space theory, which in parallel, represent key aspects of acute-to-home care handoffs. To describe these concepts and variables, the Event Analysis of Systematic Teamwork …
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Development of a Theoretical Framework of Distributed Cognition Phenomena in Control Centers During Crisis Conditions
… validate a theoretical framework describing distributed cognition phenomena occurring in organizational control centers functioning in crisis environments. Using a systems approach, the work synthesizes existing constructs relating to distributed cognition then supplements this knowledge with …
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Exploring the Impact of the Implementation of Reality Pedagogy: Self-efficacy, Social Capital, and Distributed Cognition
… the lens of self-efficacy, social capital, and distributed cognition frames in order to understand the contribution the tools of reality pedagogy offer. Participants in this study included immigrant and non-immigrant urban science students as well as students with learning disabilities (LD) and …
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A Genealogy of Frankenstein's Creation: Appropriation, Hypermediacy, and Distributed Cognition in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Studies of Frankenstein-related cultural, literary, and filmic productions tend to either focus atomistically on a particular cultural artifact or construct rather strict chains of filiation between multiple artifacts. Media scholars have developed rich conceptual resources for describing …
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Argumentation and artifacts for intelligent multi-agent systems
… under uncertainty. In human organization Distributed Cognition and Activity Theory explain how artifacts are fundamental in all cognitive process. Then, in this thesis we search to understand the use of cognitive artifacts in an new argumentation framework for an agent-based artificial …
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A study of peer activity in the early years through a range of contextual frameworks
… ecological understanding of human development, distributed cognition, activity theory and situated action</i>. <br></br><br></br> Peer literature in the early years is both varied and confusing in terms of context and outcome. Because of this predicament, it is suggested that there is an opening …
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A Case Study of New Media Literacies in an English Language Learning Program
… navigation, appropriation, judgment, and distributed cognition were enabled in the program whereas the practices of networking, participatory culture, and collective intelligence were constrained to a certain degree. The study also identified human and nonhuman actors that shaped students’ …
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Managing a sea of information : shipboard command and control in the United States Navy, 1899-1945
… characterized by epistemic actions and socially-distributed cognition. The dissertation concludes with a brief analysis of shipboard command and control systems during the Second World War, concentrating especially on the United States Navy's creation of the Combat Information Center (CIC).
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Experienced teachers’ planning practices: Orienting, inventing, and envisioning
… 1998), mediated agency (Wertsch, 1991), and distributed cognition (Hutchins, 1995). All three of these theories invite a more holistic framing of the work of teacher planning and situate it in everyday practice. I use qualitative methodology to better situate and understand teachers' choices …
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Collaborative Multimodal XR-based Training Environments for Collocated Medical Teams
… user-centered evaluation evaluation based on the Distributed Cognition Theory. This framework integrates behavioral, communicative, and perceptual data to assess team-level performance in XR, extending beyond traditional task metrics to include communication flow, role coordination, and temporal …
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Supporting dynamic and distributed decision making in acute care environments: Insights from a cognitive ethnography
… in an ICU in Ontario Canada, and utilizes distributed cognition to understand the challenges that physicians face in making decision in modern acute care environments. It also seeks to elucidate the strategies used by ICU physicians to cope with the challenges associated with using …
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Towards computer supported cooperative design
… draws upon fieldwork with designers at a large, distributed engineering design company, where a pilot study of collaborative technologies was carried out, focusing on the organisational context for such interventions and the reasons behind the qualified success of the experimental technology. In …
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Sensemaking in Immersive Space to Think: Exploring Evolution, Expertise, Familiarity, and Organizational Strategies
… new opportunities exist to leverage embodied and distributed cognition to better support sensemaking by providing vast, immersive space for creating meaningful schemas (organizational structures) during an analysis task. This work builds on prior work in immersive analytics on the concept of …
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Beyond problem identification: valuing methods in a ‘system usability practice’
… devoid of context. The top-down stages used Distributed Cognition and Resilience Engineering conceptual frameworks as leverage for exploring the data in a deductive manner. These were chosen for their functional descriptions of systems. To illustrate the importance of context we describe …
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Dynamic physical affordances for shape-changing and deformable user interfaces
… visually, and take advantage of embodied and distributed cognition by allowing users to offload mental computation spatially. However, devices today include more and more functionality, with increasingly fewer physical affordances, losing many of the advantages in expressivity and dexterity …
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Multi-Method Approach to Understand Pilot Performance in a Sociotechnical Aviation System
… method based on macroergonomics (ME) and distributed cognition (DC), allowing the cognitive aspects of a sociotechnical system to be treated as equally important as the organizational components. Also of interest was how pilot performance was affected by the introduction of nighttime and …
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Leadership for Co-teaching: A Distributed Perspective
… and explain how leaders support co-teaching. A distributed perspective based on the combination of activity and distributed cognition theories has been developed to study school leadership. This distributed perspective views leadership practice as an interaction between leaders, followers, and …
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