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Designing Human-centred Technology

A Cross-disciplinary Project in Computer-aided Manufacturing

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Howard Rosenbrock

    1. Linden, Herefordshire, UK

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Part of the book series: Human-centred Systems (HCS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. The Background to the Project

    • Howard Rosenbrock
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Technical Problem

    • Howard Rosenbrock
    Pages 17-35

  4. Towards a Design Methodology: A Psychologist’s View

    • Martin Corbett
    Pages 37-50

  5. The Social and Engineering Design of Computer Numerically Controlled Technology

    • Paul Kidd
    Pages 51-64

  6. A Computer Science View

    • Roger Holden
    Pages 65-80

  7. On the Collaboration Between Social Scientists and Engineers

    • Lisl Klein
    Pages 81-97

  8. (How) Can Technology be Redirected? A Scandinavian Perspective

    • Håkon Finne
    Pages 99-116

  9. A Works Director’s View

    • Allan Chatterton
    Pages 117-121

  10. The Coordinator’s View

    • Harold Palmer
    Pages 123-131

  11. Human-centred Systems

    • Mike Cooley
    Pages 133-143

  12. The ESPRIT Project

    • Shaun Murphy
    Pages 145-168

  13. Postscript

    • Howard Rosenbrock
    Pages 169-172

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 173-208
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This second book in our series Artificial Intelligence and Society explores the issues involved in the design and application of human-centred systems in the manufacturing area. At first glance it may appear that a book on this topic is somewhat peripheral to the main concerns of the series. In fact, although starting from an engineering perspective, the book addresses some of the pivotal issues confronting those who apply new technology in general and artificial intelligence (AI) systems in particular. Above all, the book invites us to consider whether the present applications of technology are such as to make the best use of human skill and ingenuity and at the same time provide for realistic and economically sustainable systems design solutions. To do so it is necessary to provide systems which support the skill, and are amenable to the cultures, of the areas of application in question. In a philosophical sense it means providing tools to support skills rather than machines which replace them, to use Heidegger's distinction. The book gives an authoritative account of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) tradition of human-centredness and provides a participatory design ap­ proach which focuses on collaborative learning and enhancement and creation of new skills. It also argues that collaboration should be supported by institutions through the creation of supportive infrastructures and research environments. It emphasises the optimisation of practical knowledge with the help of scientific knowledge and rejects the alternative.

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  • Linden, Herefordshire, UK

    Howard Rosenbrock

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