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Courses

Distributed Cognition (upper division, undergraduate) Cognitive Science 102A

Distributed Cognition (graduate) Cognitive Science 234

Cognitive Ethnography (upper division, undergraduate) Cognitive Science 102B

Representation in Action (graduate) Cognitive Science 260

 

 

Postdoctoral Students

 

Seifert, Colleen  

Colleen was my very first postdoc. She helped me understand the data I had collected on the bridge of navy ships. She went to sea herself on the USS Denver and made valuable additional observations. We wrote a paper together (Seifert CM & E Hutchins.  Error as opportunity:  Learning in a cooperative task.  Human Computer Interaction, 7:409-435, 1992.)

Current position: 

Associate Professor of Psychology
Univeristy of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan


Hazlehurst, Brian 

Brian was a graduate student in UCSD's Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science. His home department was Anthropology. Like me, Brian was an anthropologist with computer programming skills. I helped to supervise Brian's dissertation. When he had completed his Ph.D. I hired him as a postdoc.

Dissertation Title: Fishing for cognition : an ethnography of fishing practice in a community on the west coast of Sweden. Published 1994

Current position: 

Medical Informatics Investigator,
Kaiser-Permanente Center for Health Research,
Portland, Oregon.

 

Holder, Barbara E.

Barbara completed her Ph.D. dissertation under my supervision. I hired her as a postdoc on my NASA grant studying aviation automation safety. Barbara was a perfect choice for this work, having done a dissertation on flight training, and being a pilot herself. She now supervises my work on our Boeing funded research on flight operations at airlines outside the US.

Dissertation Title: Cognition in flight : understanding cockpits as cognitive systems.  Published 1999

Current position: 

Human Factors Specialist
Flight Deck Concept Center
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
Seattle, Washington.

 

Nomura, Saeko

Saeko came to our lab with a Ph.D. in informatics from Kyoto University. When the Boeing project started up, our first study targets were airlines in Japan. Saeko joined our team where she made critical contributions. It is no exaggeration to say that we could not have done the work in Japan (and in the flight decks of Japanese airliners) without her. She has also conducted field work for this project in New Zealand and in the US.

Current Position:

Postdoctoral Scholar
Human Computer Interaction Group
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

 


PhDs Supervised

Flor, Nick V. 

Dissertation Title: Dynamic organization in multi-agent distributed cognitive. Published 1994

 

Halverson, Christine A. 

Dissertation Title: Inside the cognitive workplace : new technology and air traffic control.  Published 1995

Current position: 

Research Staff Member in Social Computing at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center.

Hayward, Michael Brent  

Dissertation Title: Reverse-engineering emergent collective behaviors in an evolved swarm system.  Published 2003

 

Williams, Robert Frederick 

Dissertation Title: Making meaning from a clock : material artifacts and conceptual blending in time-telling instruction.  Published c2004

Current Position:

Assistant Professor of Education
Lawrence University
Appleton, Wisconsin

 

Alac, Morana  

Dissertation Title: How Brain Images Reveal Cognition:
An Ethnographic Study of Meaning-Making in Brain Mapping Practice. Published 2006

Current Position:

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of California San Diego

Becvar, Amaya 

Dissertation Title: Dissertation:  An Ethnographic Investigation of the Evolving Dynamics of a Learning Ecology
Published 2008

 

Current Doctoral Students

 

Cangiano, Gaston

Evans, Brynn

Gross, Maya