Edwin Hutchins

Edwin Hutchins (born 1948)[1] is a professor and former department head of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego.

[2] His early work involved studies of logic in legal discourse among people of the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea.

Other areas of his work include the study of airline cockpits,[7] the development of cognitive ethnographic methods and tools, and human-computer interaction.

He ran the Distributed Cognition and Human Computer Interaction Laboratory at UC San Diego, in collaboration with James Hollan until 2014.

He is now professor emeritus in the UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science.