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Designing Human-centred Technology - A Cross-disciplinary Project in Computer-aided Manufacturing (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Designing Human-centred Technology - A Cross-disciplinary Project in Computer-aided Manufacturing (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
Series: Human-centred Systems
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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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