Lucy Suchman

Human-Machine Reconfigurations

Plans and Situated Actions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Readings and responses
2. Preface to the 1st edition
3. Introduction to the 1st edition
4. Interactive artifacts
5. Plans
6. Situated actions
7. Communicative resources
8. Case and methods
9. Human-machine communication
10. Conclusion to the 1st edition
11. Plans, scripts and other ordering devices
12. Agencies at the interface
13. Figuring the human in AI and robotics
14. Demystifications and re-enchantments of the human-like machine
15. Reconfigurations
Notes
References.