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Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication

Lucy Suchman
- 15 Dec 1987 - 
- Vol. 103, Iss: 3, pp 424
TLDR
This paper presents a meta-modelling architecture for human-machine communication that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and therefore expensive and expensive process of designing and implementing communication systems.
Abstract
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Interactive artefacts 3. Plans 4. Situated actions 5. Communicative resources 6. Case and methods 7. Human-machine communication 8. Conclusion References Indices.

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Taking technomethodology seriously: hybrid change in the ethnomethodology-design relationship

TL;DR: A distinct socio-technical model is articulated that provides an iterative structure for the constructive involvement of ethnomethodology in processes of technological innovation, the results of which may subsequently be subject to the rationalities and constraints of product development.
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Anticipatory Ethnography: Design Fiction as an Input to Design Ethnography

TL;DR: Feenberg et al. as discussed by the authors argue that design ethnography can provide design fiction with the methods required to operationalize the practice in industry contexts, and design fiction can also provide design ethnographers a novel way of extending the temporal scope of the practice, thus deriving actionable insights that are applicable further into the future.
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Dissent in science: styles of scientific practice and the controversy over the cause of AIDS

TL;DR: The study describes and examines rules of confirmation used by supporters of the theory that HIV causes AIDS, and introduces an 'epidemiological' style of practice used by AIDS researchers to synthesize information to understand this disease.
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Online Communities: Usability, Sociabilty, Theory and Methods

Jenny Preece
TL;DR: The number of people coming online continues to increase as e-commerce, online education, online health, and increasing amounts of information and people with whom to chat entice even more people.
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Toward a cooperative experimental system development approach

TL;DR: A CESD model is introduced which provides a framework for handling this separation and at the same time makes it possible to identify and discuss the rich variety of relationships among concrete activities and the main concerns.
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Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design

TL;DR: It is argued that what AI needs is not so much a hermeneutic approach as a better appreciation of biology and psychology.
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Situations and Attitudes

Jon Barwise, +1 more
TL;DR: Barwise and Perry as discussed by the authors tackle the slippery subject of "meaning, " a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians, and they tackle it in this book.
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Situations and Attitudes.

TL;DR: Barwise and Perry as discussed by the authors tackle the slippery subject of ''meaning, '' a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians, and they tackle it in this book.