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   [1] From: "Jose Abdelnour Nocera" <j.l.abdelnour- (48)
                 nocera_at_open.ac.uk>
         Subject: Sociotechnical Research Groups for Interaction Design:
                 Invitation to Join List

   [2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (71)
         Subject: Litteraria Pragensia publications

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         Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:23:22 +0000
         From: "Jose Abdelnour Nocera" <j.l.abdelnour-nocera_at_open.ac.uk>
         Subject: Sociotechnical Research Groups for Interaction
Design: Invitation to Join List

Dear Friends:

This is an invitation to join and participate in this new list on
sociotechnical issues surrounding interaction design. This list focuses on
how diverse qualitative areas of the social sciences (e.g. Sociology of
Technology, Discourse Analysis, Critical Theory, Actor Network Theory,
Communication Theories, Activity Theory, Cultural Models such as Hofstede's,
Hermeneutics, among others) can contribute to create better IT for people.
The space enabled by this list will contribute to the translation of
interesting insights provided by these disciplines into actionable
recommendations and guidelines for:

* The conception, design and evaluation of interactive systems as social
proxies.

* A feasible integration of user-centred design with novel development
methodologies.

* Improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of sociocultural
requirements.

* The identification of adequate technology policies for settings in which
technology is deployed.

The list's key interests are the ubiquitous, pervasive and social proxy
dimensions of interactive systems and how its usefulness is socially
constructed and culturally shaped. It is hoped this list will foster
dialogue between academics in different disciplines (e.g. HCI, CSCW,
Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Marketing, Software Engineering,
Ergonomics, Education, Information Systems, among others) interested in this
topic.

An initial question and point of discussion is the following:
Is this attempt at 'translation' really feasible despite the epistemological
differences between disciplines whose main interest is understanding social
phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is the design of interactive
systems?

You can join the list here:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=sociotech-interactiondesign&A=1

Thanks for reading!

Dr. Jose Abdelnour Nocera
Senior Lecturer
Institute for Information Technology
Thames Valley University
Wellington Street
Slough - England
SL1 1YG
Tel [work] +44(0)1753697887 / [home] +44(0)1908648376
Fax +44 (0)1753 697750
http://sirius.tvu.ac.uk/~abdejos/
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         Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:28:19 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Litteraria Pragensia publications

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    LITERATE TECHNOLOGIES
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by Louis Armand
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Publication date: October 2006

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    Why is there consciousness and not nothing?
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What would it mean if machines could think?

    It is a basic contention of the present volume that only on such
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    Louis Armand is director of the Intercultural Studies programme
in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University, Prague. His
books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture;
Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and Incendiary
Devices: Discourses of the Other.

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