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Information ecologies : using technology with heart
A call for informed, responsible engagement with information technology at the local level. The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies. An information …
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- 9780262280426
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 NAR i
Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction
Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people actually use computers in their everyday lives is essential to good design and evaluation. This insight necessitates a move out of the laboratory and into the field. The research described in Context and…
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- 9780262280419
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) :illustrations
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A small matter of programming :perspectives on end user computing
A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so difficult for end users to command programming power and explores the problems of end user-driven application development that must be solved to afford end users greater computational power.Drawing on empirical research on existing end user systems, A Small Matter of Programming analyzes cognitive, social, and technical issues of end user pr…
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- 0585326290
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 162 pages) :illustrations
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