Social Aspects of Science and Technology
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Description: A research project at the Meaning and Computation Lab, University of California, San Diego. Explores the hypothesis that information artifacts embody definite but implicit value systems.
Social Aspects of Information Technology Social Aspects of Information Technology Computer systems are designed, built and used by people; they are components in larger socio-technical networks that include human beings; they are used for entertainment, finance, defense, transportation, shopping, dating, spamming, studying, etc. The success of a system is determined by the community of people who use it. Hence social and cognitive issues should be addressed in designing, building, evaluating and maintaining computer-based systems. Sadly, such issues are rarely taken sufficiently seriously, and as a result, many systems that are built cannot be used as intended, even more systems are abandoned before completion, cost and time overruns are more the rule than the exception, and user dissatisfaction is high. The lesson that computer systems are not purely technical objects seems very hard to learn, and very costly to ignore.
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