Good paperback copy with good text. Text has markings throughout but is good otherwise. Exterior looks good with light shelfwear. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Title

Technology in Action (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521568692

ISBN 13

9780521568692

Binding

Paperback

Condition

Good

Weight

16 ounces

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Despite extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affect everyday work and interaction. This book seeks to explore these issues through a series of video-based field studies that look at the introduction of basic information systems in general medical practice, news production, the control rooms of the London Underground and computer aided design in architectural practice. It focuses in particular on social interaction and the way video-based field studies can inform the design, development and implementation of new technology.

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"This excellent book does much to address the relationship between humans and technology in a truly encompassing way, by situating technology and its use in the broader human cognitive and social context, not just the context of the more typical computer-user dyad. In the absence of an understanding of what Lucy Suchman calls "Situated Ation," we shall remain doomed to violate human productivity and digrity with technologies which impose rather than invite; dominate rather than serve. Christian Heath and Paul Luff have given us a series of well-argued case studies which compellingly illustrate how a failure to take a broader view produces interior technologies and also how the broader view can lead to truly productive technologies which empower rather than impverish the human work experience. John Mitterer, Brock University

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