Technology in Action

Klappentext Examines the way complex systems affect interaction at work through video-based field studies. Zusammenfassung This book explores the way complex systems affect everyday work and interaction through video-based field studies looking at the introduction of basic information systems in general medical practice! news production! the control room of London Underground and computer aided design in architectural practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Technology and social action: computers and situated conduct; 2. Documents and professional practice: 'bad' organisational reasons for 'good' clinical records; 3. Animating texts: the collaborative production of news stories; 4. Team work: collaboration and control in London Underground line control rooms; 5. The collaborative production of computer commands; 6. 'Interaction' with computers in architecture.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christian Heath, Christian (King''s College London) Luff Heath, Christian Luff Heath, Heath Christian, Paul Luff, Luff Paul
• Mitarbeit: Roy Pea (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.06.2000
• EAN: 9780521568692
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56869-2
• Seiten: 286
• Serien: Learning in Doing; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Technik > Allgemeines, Lexika; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: work & labour, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects