Field research on radar navigation and steam propulsion aboard ships kept me in dark interior spaces. As a navigator myself, I was interested in how navigation was conducted on the bridge of Navy ships. So, I went to sea on a series of ships studying bridge navigation. My work on this topic is reported in my book Cognition in the Wild.

Publications:

Hutchins E.   Organizing work by adaptation.  Organization Science  2(1):14-38, 1991.

Hutchins E.  The technology of team navigation.  In J.  Galegher, R. Kraut & C. Egido (Eds.),  Intellectual teamwork: Social and technical bases of cooperative work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp 191-220, 1990.

Hutchins E.   The social organization of distributed cognition.  In: L Resnick, J Levine & S Teasley (eds), Perspectives on socially shared cognition.  Washington, DC:  APA, pp 283-307, 1991.

Hutchins E.  Learning to navigate.  In S. Chaiklin & J. Lave (Eds.), Understanding Practice, Perspectives on Activity and Context. (pp. 35-63).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 35-63, 1993.

Seifert CM & E Hutchins.  Error as opportunity:  Learning in a cooperative task.  Human Computer Interaction, 7:409-435, 1992.

Hutchins E. Where is the intelligence in a system of socially distributed cognition?  K. Takahashi (Trans.) In Advances in Japanese cognitive science, Volume 7.   Japan:  Kodansha, pp. 67-80 and 89-99, 1994.

Hutchins E.  Cognition in the Wild.  MIT Press, 1995.

Hutchins, E. The Distributed Cognition Perspective on Human Interaction. In Nicholas J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson (Eds.) Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction. Berg Publishers: Oxford, UK. Pp. 375-398, 2006.

Hutchins, E. (in press) Enaction, imagination, and insight.  In J Stewart, O Gappene, and E di Paolo (Eds.) Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm in Cognitive Science, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.