ion deals with levels of machine behaviour: as a physical machine referring to wires, magnetic disks, integrated circuits; as a logical machine referring to a collection of logical elements made from…
In the twenty-first century, we are literally surrounded by digital things and things that turn out to be digital – or have some digital parts or are parts of a larger system in which there are…
In the twenty-first century, we are literally surrounded by digital things and things that turn out to be digital – or have some digital parts or are parts of a larger system in which there are…
In the twenty-first century, we are literally surrounded by digital things and things that turn out to be digital – or have some digital parts or are parts of a larger system in which there are…
This article looks at some common assumptions and associated work practices within a military intelligence community. There intelligence practitioners use the term “raw data” as a common sense…
This naturalistic study focuses on how the co-design of educational software is an activity mediated by and through communicative resources. The aim is to identify how design suggestions and the use…
Global E-Government: Theory, Applications and Benchmarking is written by experts from academia and industry, examining the practices of e- government in developing and developed countries, presenting recent theoretical research in e-government, and providing a platform to benchmark the best practices in implementing e-Government programs.
Results suggest the efficacy of using ‘soft’ systems thinking to guide interaction (re)design of technology-enabled environments, systems, and tools in the context of a three year applied research project conducted from 2003-2006.
While scholars of educational accountability policy will not be surprised at the power of local implementers in modifying accountability efforts, Kentucky's street-level debate splits two…
In this article the argument is that in order to find women who participate in the design of IT, it is not enough to analyze gendered divisions of labor in terms of professional belongings but also…
Derivatives, which were introduced with the objective of hedging, cause movements in stock markets making them volatile. Derivatives make markets volatile, which is a common belief and this belief,…
The framework for analyzing computing and routine work presented here proves useful for representing and reasoning about activity in multiactor systems in general, and in understanding how better to integrate organizations of people and computers in which work is coordinated.
It is shown that a sequence of documents that should be produced on the way to producing the software can serve several purposes, and how these documents can be constructed using the same principles that should guide the software design is discussed.
This exploration of software development and systems design eschews jargon, assumes no computer science background, and presents an interesting and sometimes amusing discussion that challenges…
A computer system for understanding English that contains a parser, a recognition grammar of English, programs for semantic analysis, and a general problem solving system based on the belief that in modeling language understanding, it must deal in an integrated way with all of the aspects of language—syntax, semantics, and inference.
The metaphor of machine as text is explored, set within the context of longstanding problems in social theory about agency and object, where 'configuring' includes defining the identity of putative users, and setting constraints upon their likely future actions.