Mark Weiser gives a good continuity of Lucy Suchman’s work with its short article “The Computer for the 21st Century”. The visual example he brings with the daily life of an office worker are quite relevant of today’s computational technology and an extraordinary step for the 1985 computational science. His concept connects with the mutual intelligibility of Suchman and gives a sort of intelligent aspect to the technology. He talks about the ubiquitous technology as a third factor in the relation between two humans. One important condition of this type of computer compare to the original desktop one, is that it is embodied in our life and its presence is almost unnoticed. A good example hje shows is the use of wireless networks, which is now something we don’t realize anymore but that connects ALL of our devices together.
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Week 6 : Confused Coffee Beans - Suchman and Weiser
In “Plans and Situated Actions”, Lucy Suchman brings a very important controversial subject concerning the emergence of technologies at that moment in time. She tries to demystify a field of study strongly men dominated.and relate it to the human cognitive science and interaction according to her anthropologist background. She strongly evokes the intelligence of the computer in the modern world. For sure, we have to admit, that in 1985, it was hard for her to sufficiently prove that computers had a form of intelligence and self attitudes to think and respond in the human language - from a binary one. She relates her point to mutual intelligibility and cognitive science to connect the human mind to the computer mind by their similarity in languages. However, what we think is potentially absurd in this emulation is that the computer is not controlled with the English language, there was no way for us to just write English language in the computer and there was no way we could talk the binary language. One important and truthful point that she does bring out is the fact that the shift from mechanical/human computer to digital computers as personified the computers in their behavior and their response to their surroundings.
Mark Weiser gives a good continuity of Lucy Suchman’s work with its short article “The Computer for the 21st Century”. The visual example he brings with the daily life of an office worker are quite relevant of today’s computational technology and an extraordinary step for the 1985 computational science. His concept connects with the mutual intelligibility of Suchman and gives a sort of intelligent aspect to the technology. He talks about the ubiquitous technology as a third factor in the relation between two humans. One important condition of this type of computer compare to the original desktop one, is that it is embodied in our life and its presence is almost unnoticed. A good example hje shows is the use of wireless networks, which is now something we don’t realize anymore but that connects ALL of our devices together.
Dana Ryashy, Sol Paul, Xavier Champoux, Rose-Marie Dion
Mark Weiser gives a good continuity of Lucy Suchman’s work with its short article “The Computer for the 21st Century”. The visual example he brings with the daily life of an office worker are quite relevant of today’s computational technology and an extraordinary step for the 1985 computational science. His concept connects with the mutual intelligibility of Suchman and gives a sort of intelligent aspect to the technology. He talks about the ubiquitous technology as a third factor in the relation between two humans. One important condition of this type of computer compare to the original desktop one, is that it is embodied in our life and its presence is almost unnoticed. A good example hje shows is the use of wireless networks, which is now something we don’t realize anymore but that connects ALL of our devices together.
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