Publications
Books
Hutchins, E. (1995) Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hutchins, E. (1980) Culture and inference: A Trobriand case study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Journal Articles
Hollan, J. D., Hutchins, E. and Kirsh, D. (2000) Distributed Cognition: a new foundation for human-computer interaction research. ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction: Special Issue on HuVol. 7, No. 2, pages 174-196
Hutchins, E. (2000) The cognitive consequences of patterns of information flow. Intellectica. 1:30 pp. 53-74.
Hazlehurst, B. & Hutchins, E. (1998) The emergence of propositions from the coordination of talk and action in a shared world. Language and Cognitive Process (special issue on Connectionist Approaches to Language Development edited by Kim Plunkett). 13: (2/3) pp. 273-424, 1998.
Hutchins, E. (1995) How a cockpit remembers its speeds. Cognitive Science. 19, 265-288.
Hutchins, E. (1994) Comment le "cockpit" se souvient de ses vitesses. Sociologie du travail. Vol. XXXVI No. 4/94, pp.451-473.
Seifert, Colleen M. & Hutchins, Edwin L. (1992). Error as Opportunity: Learning in a Cooperative Task. Human Computer Interaction, 7, 409-435.
Hutchins, E. (1991). Organizing work by adaptation. Organization Science. Vol 2. No. 1. pp14-38.
Halff, H., Hollan, J., & Hutchins, E. (1986). Cognitive science and military training. American Psychologist, 41, 1131-1139.
Hutchins, E., Hollan, J. D., & Norman, D. A. (1985). Direct manipulation interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, 1, 311-338.
Hollan, J. D., Hutchins E. L., & Weitzman L. (1984, Summer). STEAMER: An interactive inspectable simulation-based training system. AI Magazine, 5 (2), 15-27.
Hutchins, E., & Hinton, G. E. (1984). Why the islands move. Perception, 13, 629-632.
With the Laboratory in Comparative Human Cognition. (1979). Cross cultural psychology's challenges to our ideas of children and development. American Psychologist, 34, 827-833.
Book Chapters
Hutchins, E. (1999) Cognitive Artifacts. In Wilson, R. A. and Keil, F. C. (Eds.) The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 126-128.
Hutchins, E. & Palen, L. (1997) Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech. In L. B. Resnick, R. Saljo, C. Pontecorvo, and B. Burge (Eds) Discourse, tools, and reasoning: Essays on situated cognition. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 23-40.
Hollan, J. D., Hutchins E. L., & Weitzman L. (1998). STEAMER: An interactive inspectable simulation-based training system. In Maybury, M. T. and Wahlster, W. (eds) Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann Press. Reprinted from: AI Magazine, 5 (2), 15-27.
Strum, S.C., Forster, D., & Hutchins, E. (1997) Why Machiavellian Intelligence may not be Machiavellian. In Whiten, A., and Byrne, R. W. (Eds.) Machiavellain Intelligence II: extensions and evaluations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 50-85.
Hutchins, E. (1996) Organizing work by adaptation. In Meindl, J.R., Stubbart, C., & Porac, J.F. (Eds) Cognition within and between organizations. London: Sage Publications. pp. 368-404 (Reprinted from Organization Science. Vol 2. No. 1. pp14-38.)
Hutchins, E. (1996) Organizing work by adaptation. In Cohen, M.D. & Sproull, L.S. (Eds) Organizational Learning. London: Sage Publications. pp. 20-57. (Reprinted from Organization Science. Vol 2. No. 1. pp14-38.)
Hutchins, E & Klausen, T. (1996) Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit. In Y. Engeström and D. Middleton (Eds.) Cognition and communication at work. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 15-34.
Hutchins, E. & Hazlehurst, B. (1995) How to invent a lexicon: the emergence of shared form-meaning mappings in interaction. In E. Goody (ed.) Social Intelligence and Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 53-67.
Hutchins, E. & Hazlehurst, B. (1995) How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction. In N. Gilbert and R. Conte (Eds.) Artificial Societies: the computer simulation of social life. London: UCL Press. pp. 157-189.
Hutchins, E. (1994) Where is the intelligence in a system of socially distributed cognition? (translated into Japanese by Kazuhiro Takahashi) In Advances in Japanese Cognitive Science, Volume 7. The Japanese Cognitive Science Society. pp. 67-80.
Hutchins, E. (1993) Learning to Navigate. In S. Chaiklin and J. Lave (Eds.), Understanding Practice: Perspectives on activity and context.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 35-63.
Hutchins, E. (1993) Rozumowanie w dyscursie Trobriandzkim (Reasoning in Trobriand discourse: translated into Polish by A. Szczepankiewicz) In Michal Buchowski (Ed.) Amerykanska Anthropologia Kognitywna: poznanie, jezyk, klasyfikacja i kultura. Warzawa: Instytut Kultury. pp. 247-257.
Hutchins, E. (1992) The technology of team navigation. (translated into Japanese by Naomi Miyake) In Handbook of Cognitive Science. Tokyo Japan: Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd. pp. 67-80.
Hutchins, E. (1991) The social organization of distributed cognition. In L. Resnick, J. Levine, & Stephanie Teasley (Eds.) Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. Washington, D.C.: APA Press. pp. 283-307.
Hutchins, E. (1990) The technology of team navigation. In J. Galegher, R. Kraut, & C. Egido (Eds.) Intellectual teamwork: social and technical bases of collaborative work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. pp. 191-220.
Hutchins, E. (1990). Getting it straight in Trobriand Island land litigation. In G. White and K. Watson-Gegeo (Eds.) Disentangling discourse in Pacific societies. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 412-458.
Miller, M. L. & Hutchins, E. (1990) On the acquisition of boardsailing skill. In R. Bolton (Ed.) The content of culture: constants and variants, Studies in honor of John M. Roberts. New Haven: HRAF Press. Pp. 153-170.
Hutchins, E. (1988). Metaphors for interface design. In M.M. Taylor, F. Neel, and D.G. Bouwhuis (Eds.) The structure of multimodal dialogue. Amsterdam: North Holland. pp. 11-28.
Hollan, J.D., E. Hutchins, T.P. McCandless, M.B. Rosenstein, and L. Weitzman. (1987). Graphical interfaces for simulation. In W. Rouse (Ed.), Advances in man-machine systems research. (Vol. 3). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Pp. 129-163.
Hutchins, E. (1986). Myth and experience in the Trobriand Islands. In N. Quinn & D. Holland (Eds.), Cultural models in language and thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 269-289.
Hutchins, E., Hollan, J. D., & Norman, D. A. (1985). Direct manipulation interfaces. In D. A. Norman & S. W. Draper (Eds.), User centered system design: New perspectives on human-computer interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 87-124.
Hutchins, E. (1983). Understanding Micronesian navigation. In D. Gentner & A. Stevens (Eds.), Mental models. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 191-225.
Hutchins, E. (1981). Reasoning in Trobriand discourse. In R. Casson (Ed.), Language, culture, and cognition: Anthropological perspectives. New York: MacMillan. pp. 481-489.
Technical Reports, Book Reviews, Proceedings
Hutchins, E. Ecological Cognition and Cognitive Ecology. Proceedings of the 44th annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Vol. 3, pp. 566-569, San Diego, California, August 2000.
Hutchins, E. and Holder, B. (2000) Conceptual models for understanding an encounter with a mountain wave. Proceedings of HCI-Aero 2000, Toulouse, France, September, 2000.
Hutchins, E. (1998). The cognitive consequences of patterns of information flow. Proceedings of HCI-Aero’98, Montreal Quebec, Canada. Pp. 3-6.
Hutchins, E. (1994) In search of a unit of analysis for technology use. Human Computer Interaction. Vol 9, No. 1. pp.78-81.
Hutchins, E. (1993) Review of [Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Jean Lave and Etiene Wenger] American Anthropologist, 95 pp. 743-744.
Flor, N. V. & Hutchins, E. (1992). Analysing Distributed cognition in software teams. In Proceedings of Empirical Studies of Programmers: fourth workshop. Norwood, N. J.: Ablex Publishing.
Palmer, E. A., E. L. Hutchins, R. A. Ritter, I. van Cleemput, (1993, October) Altitude deviations: breakdowns of an error tolerant system. NASA Technical Memorandum 108788. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
Hutchins, E & B. Hazlehurst (1991) Learning in the cultural process. Proceedings of the second conference on artificial life. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe New Mexico.
Seifert, C & E. Hutchins. (1989, October) Learning in a distributed system. Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Camparative Human Cognition. Vol. 11, No. 4.
Hutchins, E. (1988). Review of [Suchman, L. Plans and Situated Actions] American Anthropologist, 90, pg. 988.
Hutchins, E. (1988). The Technology of Team Navigation. ICS Technical Report #8804. Institute for Cognitive Science, U.C. San Diego, La Jolla, Ca.
Hutchins, E. (1987). Mediation and Automatization. ICS Technical Report #8704. Institute for Cognitive Science, U.C. San Diego, La Jolla, Ca.
Hutchins, E. (1986, April). Mediation and automatization. Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 8 (2). University of California, San Diego.
Hutchins, E. (1986). Metaphors for interface design. ICS Technical Report #8703. Institute for Cognitive Science, U.C. San Diego, La Jolla, Ca.
Hutchins, E. (1985, January). Review of [Sudnow, D. Pilgrim in the Microworld]. Urban Life, 13 (4), 423-427.
Hollan, J., & Hutchins, E. (1984, June). Reservations about qualitative models. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 183-187.
Hollan, J., Hutchins, E., Rosenstein, M., & Weitzman, L. (1984, November). Tools for graphical interface design. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Metropolitan Chapter Symposium, New York.
Hutchins, E., McCandless, T., Woodworth, G., & Dutton, B. (1984). Maneuvering board training system: Analysis and redesign. (Technical Report 84-19). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center.
Stevens, A. & Hutchins, E. (1983). Project Steamer: VIII. System evaluation by Navy propulsion engineering training personnel. (Special Report 83-52). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center.
Hutchins, E., & McCandless, T. P. (1982). Manboard: A graphic display program for training relative motion concepts. (Technical Report TN 82-10). San Diego, CA: Navy Personnel Research and Development Center.
Riesbeck, C. K., & Hutchins, E. (1982). Principles of procedures composition. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Hutchins, E., & Levin J. A. (1981) Point of view in problem solving. (CHIP Technical Report 105). La Jolla, CA: University of California, San Diego, Center for Human Information Processing.
Cole, M., Hutchins, E., Levin, J., & Miyake, N. (Eds.). (1979). Naturalistic problem solving and microcomputers. Conference report. (CHIP Technical Report 86). La Jolla, CA: University of California, Center for Human Information Processing.
Levin, J., & Hutchins, E. (1979, August). The structure and process of talking about doing. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. La Jolla, CA.
Manuscripts
Forster, D., Hutchins, E., and Strum, S. (1995, June) Essence and boundaries: Ontogeny of distributed social skill in baboons. Paper delivered at the Twenty-fifth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Berkeley , CA., June 1995.
Hutchins, E. (1989, August) A cultural view of distributed cognition. Prepared for a symposium on distributed cognition, 11th annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society, Ann Arbor, MI.
Hutchins, E. (1989, April) Communauté de réseaux et cognition distribuée. Prepared for an interdisciplinary colloquium, Travail et practiques langagières. Paris, France.
Hutchins, E. (1989, April) L'organisation sociale de la cognition distribuée. Prepared for an interdisciplinary colloquium, Travail et practiques langagières. Paris, France.
Hutchins, E., & Hutchins, D. C. (1981). A Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch of the Language of Boyowa (Trobriand Islands). (approx. 600 pp.)