D. Hollan, E. Hutchins, and D. Kirsh. Distributed cognition: A new foundation for human-computer interaction research. February 22 1999. [url]

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This article resume the theoretical foundation of Distributed Cognition and connects it with other field of research. For the distributed cognition theory, a cognition spans out of the peronal boundaries of the agents and interconnects humans and objects in the same conceptual grid.

I found two interesting references in here:

1. In distributed cognition, one expects to find a system that can dynamically configure itself to bring sub-systems into coordination to accomplish various functions;

2. distributed cognition looks for a broader class of cognitive events and does not expect all such events to be emcompassed by the skin or skull of an individual.