Lucy Suchman

Broschiertes Buch

Human-Machine Reconfigurations

Plans and Situated Actions

Beschreibung

This 2007 book provides a way of understanding how human actions and technological artifacts are intertwined. The author shows how leading edge technologies can rest on very old-fashioned assumptions, while more modest initiatives suggest innovative approaches to technology design and use.

Autor

Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. She is also the Co-Director of Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies. Before her post at Lancaster University, she spent 20 years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Her research focused on the social and material practices that make up technical systems, which was explored through critical studies and experimental and participatory projects in new technology design. In 2002, she received the Diana Forsythe Prize for Outstanding Feminist Anthropological Research in Science, Technology and Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780521675888
• ISBN-10: 052167588X
• Artikelnr.: 21269137