分布式认知研究述评

The review of distributed cognition research

从个体认知到分布式认知的转变,是人类适应信息社会复杂性的重要思维特征。分布式认知是一个看待认知现象的系统化视角,"分布"不是认知结构的增强,而是认知功能的中介。分布式认知可以作为学习领域、人机交互设计、计算机支持的协作学习、人机协同工作设计的理论基础。认知分布现象是客观的,对分布式认知的背景、分布内涵、个体与人工制品的地位、交互等内容的系统化梳理,有助于把握分布式认知的研究脉络与趋向。目前,对分布式认知在时间、空间、群体、人工制品中的分布形态研究较多,已有成熟的研究案例出现。但是,对于分布式认知的心理结构模型、认知分布的过程性特征、认知任务的分布式表征方式等问题,还有待进一步探索。

The transformation from individual cognition to distributed cognition is an important thinking characteristic for human to adapt to the complex society.Distributed Cognition is a systematic view about cognitive phenomenon.The Distribution is not the augmentation of cognitive structure,but the mediation of cognitive function.Distributed cognition can be used as the theory foundation of learning domain,human-computer interaction design,CSCL,human-machine coordinated workplace design.The phenomenon of distributed cognition is objective,and it will help to hold the research process and trend through systematically combing the background,connotation of distribution,place of individual and artifact,and interaction of distributed cognition.For the moment,there are many researches about the distribution in time,space,groups and artifacts,including mature cases.But,it need further explore to psychological structure model,features of process and distributed representation of distributed cognition.