Human-Machine Reconfigurations Plans and Situated Actions

Name: Human-Machine Reconfigurations Plans and Situated Actions
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ISBN: 9780521675888

ISBN-10: 052167588X

ISBN-13: 9780521675888

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Lucy A. Suchman

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This book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on recent scholarship across the social sciences, humanities and computing, the…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Readings and responses



Preface to the 1st edition



Introduction to the 1st edition



Interactive artifacts



Plans



Situated actions



Communicative resources



Case and methods



Human-machine communication



Conclusion to the 1st edition



Plans, scripts and other ordering devices



Agencies at the interface



Figuring the human in AI and robotics



Demystifications and re-enchantments of the human-like machine



Reconfigurations


Notes


References