Distributed Cognition theory in HCI views cognition as distributedacross individuals, artefacts, and the physical and social environ-ments rather than residing solely in individual minds [25, 28 ]. Cog-nitive processes emerge from interactions among people, tools, andculturally embedded practices, captured by DC’s three tenets: cog-nition is (1) socially distributed, (2) embodied, and (3) culturallyshaped. This positions DC as a framework for analysing collabo-rative work through the coordination of actors, representationalstructures, and artefacts. DC treats these elements as functionallyintegrated parts of a system organised around accomplishing aspecific task. This perspective enables analysis of how knowledgeand decision-making are distributed across and shaped by the in-teractions within the system [25].
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