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Health Technology Development and Use - From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts (Paperback)
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Health Technology Development and Use - From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
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How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users
contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these
questions by following particular technologies over several product
launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas
about future technology and uses, how these are developed into
products and embedded in health care practices, and how the form
and impact of these technologies then evolves through several
rounds of design and deployment across different types of
organizations. Examining these processes through three case studies
of health care innovations, these studies reveal a blind spot in
extant research on development-use relations. The majority of
studies have examined shorter 'episodes': moments within particular
design projects, implementation processes, usability evaluations,
and human-machine interactions. Studies with longer time-frames
have resorted to a relatively coarse 'grain-size' of analysis and
hence lost sight of how the interchange is actually done. As a
result there are no social science, information systems, or
management texts which comprehensively or adequately address: * how
different moments, sites and modes of shaping new technology
determine the evolution of new technology; * the detailed
mechanisms of learning, interaction, and domination between
different actors and technology during these drawn out processes;
and * the relationship of technology projects and the professional
practices and social imaginations that are associated in technology
development, evaluation, and usage. The "biographies of
technologies and practices" approach to new technology advanced in
this volume offers us urgent new insight to core empirical and
theoretical questions about how and where development projects gain
their representations of future use and users, how usage is
actually designed, how users' requests and modifications affect
designs, and what kind of learning takes place between developers
and users in different phases of innovation-all crucial to our
understanding and ability to advance new health technology, and
innovation more generally.
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