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  • Cognition is tightly coupled with the environment, extending beyond individual minds.
  • Distributed cognition (DC) theory analyzes information processing across external representations, social networks, and time.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide an overview of distributed cognition theory.
  • To demonstrate its application in health informatics through use cases.
  • To highlight its potential for design changes and testable hypotheses in evidence-based health informatics.

Main Methods:

  • Review of early and recent distributed cognition literature.
  • Presentation of two use cases illustrating DC application in health informatics projects.
  • Identification of key determinants influencing sociotechnical system and technology performance.

Main Results:

  • Distributed cognition theory offers descriptive, rhetorical, inferential, and application power.
  • Use cases demonstrate DC's utility in formative and summative project stages.
  • Key performance determinants in sociotechnical systems were identified.

Conclusions:

  • Distributed cognition theory is a powerful framework for analyzing complex cognitive and sociotechnical systems.
  • Its application in health informatics can drive evidence-based design improvements and research hypotheses.
  • The theory facilitates understanding of human-technology interactions and system performance.