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1. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology: Volume > 5 > Issue: 2
Paul T. Durbin SPT at the End of a Quarter Century: What Have We Accomplished?
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Andy Crabtree, John A. Hughes, Jon O’Brien, Tom Rodden On the Social Organization of Space and the Design of Electronic Landscapes.
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This paper reports on-going work in the eSCAPE Project (Esprit Long Term Research Project 25377) directed to the research and development of electronic landscapes for public use. Our concern here is to elucidate a sociologically informed approach towards the design of electronic landscapes or virtual worlds. We suggest — and demonstrate through ethnographic studies of virtual technologies at a multimedia art museum and information technology trade show — that members sense of space is produced through social practices tied to the accomplishment of activities occurring within the locations their actions are situated. Space, in other words, is socially constructed and shaped through members’ practices for accomplishing situated activities. We explicate, by practical examples, an approach to discovering social practices in and through which a sense of space is constructed and outline how such understandings may be used to formulate requirements for the design of electronic landscapes. In explicating our ethnographically informed approach, we outline how future technologies may bedeveloped through the situated evaluation of experimental prototypes in public use.
3. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology: Volume > 5 > Issue: 2
Eric Dietrich Cognitive Science and the Mechanistic Forces of Darkness, or Why the Computational Science of Mind Suffers the Slings and Arrowsof Outrageous Fortune
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Gene Moriarty The Place of Engineering and the Engineering of Place
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The role or place of engineering is to engineer place, a location of engaging life events. That is the case for focal engineering, which is distinguished from two other kinds of engineering: traditional engineering and modernist engineering. These three kinds of engineering are discussed in terms of ways of knowing appropriate to them: know-how for traditionalist engineering, knowhow/know- what for modernist engineering, and know-how/know- what/know-why for focalengineering. Various notions of place and space are relevant to the three kinds of engineering discussed. In traditional engineering, place and space are backgrounded. In modernist engineering, space begins to dominate, causing a disharmony in the place/space constellation. In focal engineering, place is stressed in order to re-harmonize the place/space constellation.
5. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology: Volume > 5 > Issue: 2
Andrew Garnar Portable Civilizations and Urban Assault Vehicles
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