Cognition Distributed -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology -- Introductory overview -- Part I: What distributed cognition is not -- Meaning: Narrow and wide. -- Performance capacity. -- Distributed perception? -- Physical states: Narrow and wide -- Autonomous systems. -- Cognitive and vegetative function. -- Consciousness. -- Is there cognizing without consciousness? -- The "other-minds" problem. -- What is alive? -- Biotic states: Narrow and wide? -- Distributed life. -- Spatial and causal disjointness. -- Distributed mental states? -- Mind-reading. -- Living and cognizing. -- The migraine test. -- Cognitive states and mental states. -- Cognitive Technology: Tools R Us? -- The Extended Mind. -- The Turing Test. -- Part II: What distributed cognition is -- Wide-Body Beings. -- Mental states are conscious states -- Are unconscious brain states mental? -- Neural vs google storage and retrieval. -- Distributed databases. -- Offloading brainwork. -- Sensorimotor technology and augmented reality -- The advent of language -- Language as distributed cognition? -- Interactive Cognition. -- Cognizers and tools. -- Cognitive technology and the human mind. -- Notes -- References -- A framework for thinking about distributed cognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A notion of distributed cognition -- 3. A benign form of distributed cognition -- 4. Distributed cognition between dummies: Swarm intelligence (SI) -- 5. Distributed cognition between cognitive agents: Multi-agent systems (MAS) -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Distributed cognition -- 1. The integration and coordination of domains in distributed cognition -- 1.1 External cultural tools, artefacts, and symbol systems -- 1.2 Natural environmental resources.

1.3 Interpersonal and social distribution or scaffolding -- 1.4 Embodied capacities and skills -- 2. Dimensions of distribution and integration -- Note -- References -- Distributed cognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Closely coupled -- 3. Cost structure -- 4. Cognitive efficiency of design -- 5. Coordination -- 6. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Radical changes in cognitive process due to technology -- 1. Grounding cognition in action -- 1.1 Symbol grounding -- 1.2 Grounding language in action -- 1.3 Empirical support for grounding meaning in action -- 2. A general framework for cognition and action -- 3. Action framework and distributed cognition -- 4. Implications for technology -- Notes -- References -- The grounding and sharing of symbols -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physical symbol grounding -- 3. Social symbol grounding -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition -- 1. What is collaborative tagging -- 2. The relevance of tagging for distributed cognition -- Note -- References -- Thinking in groups -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What makes something "distributed"? -- 3. Some case studies -- 3.1 Group path formation -- 3.2 Propagation of innovations -- 3.3 Human foraging behavior -- 4. Lessons learned -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Distributed learning and mutual adaptation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributed learning and education -- 3. Four types of distributed cognition for learning -- 4. A hypothesis about mutual adaptation -- 4.1 Physically distributed learning -- 4.2 Socially distributed learning -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributed cognition between individuals and artifacts -- 3. Distributed cognition across individuals -- 4. Affordance as distributed dognition -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

Categorization and technology innovation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychological models of categorization and the technologies they enable -- 3. Philosophical essentialism and technology innovation -- References -- Crime scene investigation as distributed cognition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Distributed Cognition -- 2.1 Wright et al.'s resources model -- 2.2 Implications for technology -- 3. Narratives as resource-for-action: Synthesising multiple representations -- 3.1 Narrative and argument -- 3.2 Narratives and reporting of incidents -- 3.3 Sharing narrative -- 3.4 Implications for technology -- 4. The crime scene as a resource for action: How environment influences search -- 4.1 Narrative in the collection of evidence -- 4.2 Implications for technology -- 5. Objects as resources for action: The affordance of evidence -- 5.1 Fingermarks -- 5.2 Implications for technology -- 6. Procedures as resources for action: Distributing crime scene investigation across people, procedures, and technology -- 6.1 Implications for technology -- 7. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Web search engines and distributedassessment systems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Information seeking behaviour and cognition - the advent of the Web -- 2.1 Consequences of the growth of online documents -- 2.2 The stake: Acquiring information from others and cognitive economy -- 2.3 Epistemic practices on the Web -- 2.4 The cognitive function of search engines -- 3. The Web's assessment systems -- 3.1 Search engines as meta-information providers -- 3.2 Distributed cognition on the Web -- 3.3 What the Web's distributed assessment systems do for us -- 4. General properties of distributed assessment systems and the specificity of search engines -- 4.1 Other reputation systems -- 4.2 General properties of distributed assessment systems -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Speech transformation solutions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Large vocabulary speech recognition: Inflated expectations -- 3. Using existing speech recognition technology for accessibility -- 3.1 Liberated Learning -- 3.2 CaptionMeNow -- 3.3 Museum applications -- 4. Integration of human intelligence and computers -- 4.1 Editing innovations -- 4.2 Usability enhancement: Batch enrollment -- 4.3 Training user models across a network -- 4.4 Content spotting -- 5. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1: Adaptable user interface -- Appendix 2: The algorithm for Content Spotting -- Computer-aided translation as a distributed cognitive task -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Human-computer interaction in translation -- 2.2 Cognitive processes in translation -- 3. Data and methods -- 3.1 Study design -- 3.2 Texts -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 The status of the sentence in the translation process -- 4.2 TM systems' effect on the translation task -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.