I would recommend Ed Hutchins' "Cognition in the Wild". He examines the performance of the crew of a ship acting as distributed intelligence and the many factors that go into making them an effective unit (or not).

Ed was also part of the UCSD Cognitive Science department at the time of the Vincennes incident and I suspect it was his work, along with Don Norman's, that drew the attention of the Navy. At the time, I was doing an undergraduate independent study in his lab, where we spent hours watching videos of airline pilots in 747 flight simulators, looking out for errors while using the flight guidance system. Our "textbook" was the operations manual for the 747 guidance and autopilot system.

An example of the sort of UI things we were looking for:

"Improvements" such as replacing the analog altimeter and airspeed indicators with digital readouts deprived pilots of operational awareness as they could no longer estimate rate of descent by watching the movement of the hands of the analog meters.

Anyway, here are the links:

This is the introduction and table of contents:

https://hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/citw.html

Amazon link

https://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Wild-Bradford-Edwin-Hutchin...

For research supporting this mode of working, see Bruno Latour's "Laboratory Life":

https://www.amazon.com/Laboratory-Life-Construction-Scientif...

and Ed Hutchins' "Cognition in the Wild":

https://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Wild-Press-Edwin-Hutchins/d...

> Is the evidence pretty overwhelming that intelligence comes from the brain?

> Yes.

No.

http://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Bradford-Books-Edwin-Hutchin...

http://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Cognition-New-Problems-Philos...