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Welcome to the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego. The Dcog-HCI Lab is directed by Professors Jim Hollan and Ed Hutchins

Currently there is a shift in cognitive science toward a view of cognition as a property of systems that are larger than isolated individuals. This extends the reach of cognition to encompass interactions between people as well as interactions with resources in the environment. Members of the Dcog-HCI lab are dedicated to developing the theoretical and methodological foundations engendered by this broader view of cognition and interaction. 

We are united in the belief that distributed cognition promises to be a particularly fertile framework for designing and evaluating augmented environments and digital artifacts. A central image for us is environments in which people pursue their activities in collaboration with the elements of of the social and material world. Our core research efforts are directed at understanding such environments: what we really do in them, how we coordinated our activity in them, and what role technology should play in them.

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DCog-HCI (see all)

Lab Meeting-Open

Wed, Feb 15th, 10:10am-11:10am (SSRB 100)
(1 day, 17 hours from now)


Lab Meeting-Susan Goldin-Meadow

Wed, Feb 22nd, 10:10am-11:10am (SSRB 100)
(1 week, 1 day from now)


Lab Meeting-Nadir Weibel

Wed, Feb 29th, 10:10am-11:10am (SSRB 100)
(2 weeks, 1 day from now)


Lab Meeting-Terry Jernigan

Wed, Mar 7th, 10:10am-11:10am (SSRB 100)
(3 weeks, 1 day from now)


Lab Meeting-Ed &Team on ETRA

Wed, Mar 14th, 10:10am-11:10am (SSRB 100)
(4 weeks, 1 day from now)


UCSD (see all)

Paula Tallal (CNS talk)

Temporal processing in the literate brain

Developmental deficits affecting speech perception increases the risk for language and literacy problems with lowered academic and occupational attainment. Both normal development and disorders of speech perception have been linked to temporospectral auditory processing speed. Understanding the role of dynamic auditory processing in speech perception has led to the development of neuroplasticity-based intervention strategies aimed at ameliorating speech perceptual deficits and their sequalae. The fundamental building blocks of all languages are the ...
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Tue, Feb 14th, 12:00pm-1:00pm (Mandler 3545 (Crick Conference Room))
(19 hours, 5 minutes from now)


Dynamics of Cortical Circuits (Neuro talk)

Dynamics of Cortical Circuits

Dr. Gilbert’s lab is a leader in the field of neural circuits and seeks to elucidate the ways that long-term modification and short-term gating of cortical circuits underlie the experience- and task-dependent dynamics of cortical function. Vision is a dynamic process resulting from an interaction between context, perceptual learning, and top-down influences. All cortical levels of sensory processing are capable of undergoing long-term, experience-dependent functional changes resulting from the normal process of perceptual learning ...
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Wed, Feb 15th, 4:00pm-5:00pm (CNCB Large Conference Room (formerly CMG))
(1 day, 23 hours from now)


CONTROL OF DYNAMICS OF EXCITABLE NETWORKS (INC talk)

CONTROL OF DYNAMICS OF EXCITABLE NETWORKS

The spatiotemporal dynamics of neuronal systems remains a
challenging and important topic in theoretical neuroscience. To understand
complex dynamics, it is necessary to start from controllable systems, such
as excitable chemical systems and small neuronal networks. In my talk, I
will begin with the control of spatiotemporal dynamics of photosensitive
Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) systems. Due to their amenability to
experimental control and theoretical analyses, photosensitive BZ systems
have been serving as ideal model systems ...
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Thu, Feb 16th, 12:30pm-1:30pm (San Diego Supercomputer Center, East Annex South Wing, Level B1, EB-129)
(2 days, 19 hours from now)