How cognitive artifacts support distributed cognition in acute care

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Nemeth
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts

How Cognitive Artifact Support of Acute Care Distributed Cognition Affects Patient Safety

2004 ◽  
pp. 2967-2972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Nemeth ◽  
Richard I. Cook ◽  
Michael O’Connor ◽  
P. Allan Klock
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Artifact

The Symbolic Functions of Nurses’ Cognitive Artifacts on a Medical Oncology Unit

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-536
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn W. Blaz ◽  
Alexa K. Doig ◽  
Kristin G. Cloyes ◽  
Nancy Staggers
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Medical Oncology ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Oncology Nurses ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Acute Care Nurses ◽  
Specialty Hospital ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Oncology Unit ◽  
Support Work

Acute care nurses continue to rely on personally created paper-based tools—their “paper brains”—to support work during a shift, although standardized handoff tools are recommended. This interpretive descriptive study examines the functions these paper brains serve beyond handoff in the medical oncology unit at a cancer specialty hospital. Thirteen medical oncology nurses were each shadowed for a single shift and interviewed afterward using a semistructured technique. Field notes, transcribed interviews, images of nurses’ paper brains, and analytic memos were inductively coded, and analysis revealed paper brains are symbols of patient and nurse identity. Caution is necessary when attempting to standardize nurses’ paper brains as nurses may be resistant to such changes due to their pride in constructing personal artifacts to support themselves and their patients.

Using Cognitive Artifacts to Understand Distributed Cognition

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 726-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.P. Nemeth ◽  
R.I. Cook ◽  
M. O'Connor ◽  
P.A. Klock
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts

AGAINST SIMPLICITY AND COGNITIVE INDIVIDUALISM

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel T. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Individual Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Artefacts ◽  
Individual Human

Neuroeconomics illustrates our deepening descent into the details of individual cognition. This descent is guided by the implicit assumption that “individual human” is the important “agent” of neoclassical economics. I argue here that this assumption is neither obviously correct, nor of primary importance to human economies. In particular I suggest that the main genius of the human species lies with its ability to distribute cognition across individuals, and to incrementally accumulate physical and social cognitive artifacts that largely obviate the innate biological limitations of individuals. If this is largely why our economies grow, then we should be much more interested in distributed cognition in human groups, and correspondingly less interested in individual cognition. We should also be much more interested in the cultural accumulation of cognitive artefacts: computational devices and media, social structures and economic institutions.

scholarly journals Situated and distributed cognition in artifact negotiation and trade-specific skills: A cognitive ethnography of Kashmiri carpet weaving practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-475
Author(s):  
Gagan Deep Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Information Representation ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Cognitive Ethnography ◽  
Artifact Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Involvement ◽  
Kashmiri Carpet Weaving

This article describes various ways actors in Kashmiri carpet weaving practice deploy a range of artifacts, from symbolic, to material, to hybrid, in order to achieve diverse cognitive accomplishments in their particular task domains: information representation, inter and intra-domain communication, distribution of cognitive labor across people and time, coordination of team activities, and carrying of cultural heritage. In this repertoire, some artifacts position themselves as naïve tools in the actors’ environment to the point of being ignored; however, their usage-in-context unfolds their cognitive involvement in the tasks. These usages-in-context are shown through artifact analysis of their routine, improvised, and opportunistic uses, where cognitive artifacts like talim—the central artifact of this practice—are shown to play not only multifunctional roles beyond representation, but are also complemented by trade-specific skills bearing strong cognitive implications in a task.

scholarly journals Children’s Picturebook Goes Digital: Implications on Cognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Thales Estefani ◽  
João Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Definition Of

The objects of analysis in this article are digital picturebooks, which may be called e-picturebooks. This research contributes to a definition of e-picturebook as a distinct storytelling experience from printed picturebook, introducing distributed cognition as a new theoretical perspective for the analysis of the phenomenon. This perspective emphasizes cognitive systems related to specific features of this category of digital book. In this sense, picturebook and e-picturebook are defined as cognitive artifacts that constrain storytelling tasks very differently from each other, not only because of their constitutive features but also because of the cognitive systems involved in the understanding of stories in each medium.

A Study of How Cognitive Artifacts Affect Distributed Cognition in Operating Room Management

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (Sup 2) ◽  
pp. A1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Nemeth ◽  
Allan P. Klock ◽  
Suanne Daves ◽  
Richard I. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Operating Room Management ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts
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