Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
: A study was conducted of the practices that engineering designers had learned from experience to apply during the search
for, and implementation of, new solution concepts. Each of 36 practices was analysed in terms of the goal it was directed
to, and how it distributed cognition beyond the mental world of the designer. The results suggest that designers distribute
cognition over their environments in a wide variety of ways which are not restricted, for instance, to using design tools.
They also suggest that designers learn these practices in the context of specific experiences, probably by trial and error
or social observation rather than means–end analysis. All but two of the practices involved distributed cognition of some
kind, but there were no cases where this distribution involved ceding executive control to the environment. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2001 | 10.1007/PL00011529 | Cognition, Technology & Work |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Key words: Design – Distributed cognition – Practice – Search | Trial and error,Suicide prevention,Simulation,Human factors and ergonomics,Knowledge management,Socially distributed cognition,Injury prevention,Engineering,Cognition,Mental world,Occupational safety and health | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
3 | 3 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.46 | 7 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. S. Busby | 1 | 30 | 6.10 |