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This open access book examines how the social sciences can be
integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting
unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social
science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities
and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and
Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social sciences and
Humanities in technical fields, the essays and papers collected in
this book were presented at the NSF-funded workshop 'Engineering a
Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences and
Innovation', which brought together a singular collection of
people, topics and disciplines. The book is split into three parts:
A. Meeting at the Middle: Challenges to educating at the boundaries
covers experiments in combining engineering education and the
social sciences; B. Engineers Shaping Human Affairs: Investigating
the interaction between social sciences and engineering, including
the cult of innovation, politics of engineering, engineering design
and future of societies; and C. Engineering the Engineers:
Investigates thinking about design with papers on the art and
science of science and engineering practice.
The importance and value of tracking and sharing the dispersed
knowledge resources of contemporary organizations have received
widespread rec- nition in recent years. It is widely believed that
with the transition from the industrial to information-based
economies, organizational knowledge has emerged as the single most
critical resource at both macro- and mic- levels. A major challenge
for most organizations during this transition and beyond is to
learn to deal with the intricacies of discovering knowledge from
the vast amounts of data being generated, identifying pockets of -
portant knowledge in various forms, to devise strategies and
techniques to formalize parts that lend themselves to codification,
and to nurture tech- cal and other solutions with which useful
knowledge can be shared among relevant participants. This has the
potential to produce greater knowledge utilization leading to
multiplier effects in organizational performance. This calls for an
approach in which both the organizational and technological
dimensions of the challenge are better understood and effectively
integ- ted. The papers included in this volume were selected from a
collection of papers presented at an invitation-only workshop
entitled 'Knowledge - nagement (KM) and the Global Firm:
Organizational and Technological Dimensions' held at the University
of Sydney in Sydney, Australia in February 2003. The workshop was
made possible by a generous grant from the Carnegie Bosch Institute
at Carnegie Mellon University, Pit- burgh, USA.
The importance and value of tracking and sharing the dispersed
knowledge resources of contemporary organizations have received
widespread rec- nition in recent years. It is widely believed that
with the transition from the industrial to information-based
economies, organizational knowledge has emerged as the single most
critical resource at both macro- and mic- levels. A major challenge
for most organizations during this transition and beyond is to
learn to deal with the intricacies of discovering knowledge from
the vast amounts of data being generated, identifying pockets of -
portant knowledge in various forms, to devise strategies and
techniques to formalize parts that lend themselves to codification,
and to nurture tech- cal and other solutions with which useful
knowledge can be shared among relevant participants. This has the
potential to produce greater knowledge utilization leading to
multiplier effects in organizational performance. This calls for an
approach in which both the organizational and technological
dimensions of the challenge are better understood and effectively
integ- ted. The papers included in this volume were selected from a
collection of papers presented at an invitation-only workshop
entitled 'Knowledge - nagement (KM) and the Global Firm:
Organizational and Technological Dimensions' held at the University
of Sydney in Sydney, Australia in February 2003. The workshop was
made possible by a generous grant from the Carnegie Bosch Institute
at Carnegie Mellon University, Pit- burgh, USA.
A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal
art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world.
We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both digital and
analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or
objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the
case? We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to the
entity called "user"; we are not homogenous but diverse. That buzz
of dissonance that we hear reflects the difficulty of condensing
our diversity into "one size fits all." This book proposes that a
new understanding of design could resolve that dissonance, and
issues a call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a
liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the
material world. The authors envision designing as a dialogue,
simultaneously about the individual and the social-an act enriched
by diversity of both disciplines and perspectives. The book
presents the building blocks of a language that can conceive
designing in all its richness, with relevance for both theory and
practice. It introduces a theoretical model, terminology, examples,
and a framework for bringing together the social, cultural, and
political aspects of designing. It will be essential reading for
design theorists and for designers in areas ranging from
architecture to software design and policymaking.
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