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It has been recognised that failures within an organisation can often be related to the over simplification of the belief structures that are used in decision making.2 Distributed cognition is a framework that can be used for analysing complex distributed settings to explain how the social activities within these impact the cognitive processes of the participants.� Rather than focussing on the mind, the material world is seen as being central.� It shows how important it is that participants in a setting can look at their own interpretations and discus these with others before deciding which actions to take.

Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition

Bossa is an open-source software framework for distributed thinking - the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that use human cognition, knowledge, or intelligence.

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION AND COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN: THE ORGANISATION OF WORK IN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING