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Minneman, Scott Lester.

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The social construction of a technical reality: Empirical studies of group engineering design practice.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The social construction of a technical reality: Empirical studies of group engineering design practice./
Author:	Minneman, Scott Lester.
Description:	223 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-09, Section: B, page: 4939.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-09B.
Subject:	Engineering, Mechanical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9206826

The social construction of a technical reality: Empirical studies of group engineering design practice.
Minneman, Scott Lester.

The social construction of a technical reality: Empirical studies of group engineering design practice. - 223 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-09, Section: B, page: 4939.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1991.

This dissertation presents a method for looking at and changing the practice of group engineering design. In traditional design studies, researchers stand outside the process to analyze or criticize. In contrast, the author presents a method for proactive design research--a way of intervening in design practice, of watching (and accounting for) the effects of those changes, and planning the next intervention. The method encompasses the breadth of engineering design activity and addresses the ways that design work emerges from interactions among individuals and groups as they establish, maintain, and develop a shared understanding. Four threads emerge from the chronicle of research efforts: (1) an integrated method for studying and intervening in group engineering design practice, (2) a framework for considering the work that gets done in the social activity of design, (3) a description of practices used to accomplish the complex social and technical work of design, and (4) a collection of entailments for design education, practice, tools, and research.Subjects--Topical Terms:

783786
Engineering, Mechanical.

The social construction of a technical reality: Empirical studies of group engineering design practice.
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520 $a This dissertation presents a method for looking at and changing the practice of group engineering design. In traditional design studies, researchers stand outside the process to analyze or criticize. In contrast, the author presents a method for proactive design research--a way of intervening in design practice, of watching (and accounting for) the effects of those changes, and planning the next intervention. The method encompasses the breadth of engineering design activity and addresses the ways that design work emerges from interactions among individuals and groups as they establish, maintain, and develop a shared understanding. Four threads emerge from the chronicle of research efforts: (1) an integrated method for studying and intervening in group engineering design practice, (2) a framework for considering the work that gets done in the social activity of design, (3) a description of practices used to accomplish the complex social and technical work of design, and (4) a collection of entailments for design education, practice, tools, and research.
520 $a Two related projects were undertaken during the course of this research. The first, a longitudinal study of an industrial team working on a photocopier subsystem, emphasized intervention with multi-media services and provided an ethnographic overview of design practice in situ. The second project, a series of half-day, group design exercises focusing on the communications arising in distributed design activity, was used to provide a detailed look at phenomena being observed in the longitudinal study. Videotape recordings of each project were gathered to support the study. Two related understandings resulted from a detailed analysis of project record--an activity framework for considering the entire social process of designing, and a set of practices that participants use to get that design work done. The crucial practices observed were: negotiating understandings, conserving ambiguity, tailoring engineering communication for recipients, and manipulating mundane representations. With these practices, designers' activity can he seen as attending to and creating a recognizable order in their ongoing social interaction.
520 $a The dissertation argues that not only do negotiation and interactive organization largely account for design activity, but also that these moment-to-moment practices have substantial implications for design education, tool development, design practice, and design research.
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