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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Technological System"”.
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Technological innovation in forest harvesting
… with a variety of issues revolving around technological change, such as explaining the origins of technological innovation and arguing for or against technological determinism. This thesis reviews a number of theoretical models developed by historians, philosophers, sociologists, and other …
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The Social Construction of Technology: The Case of LSD
… which is commonly known as LSD. I show how the technological system of LSD corresponds to phases designated by SCOT theorist Thomas Hughes, specifically invention, development, innovation, growth, competition, and consolidation. I explain the importance of Timothy Leary and the CIA in the social …
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IVAAIU urban instrument : hyper-complex civic monument for Seoul
… through digital interactive interfaces. In this system, when users input data, interfaces respond to it by generating physical components interactively; therefore, individuals can create urban environments with own intentions. However, at the same time, the technological movement also raises a …
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The development of high definition television : an ecology of games
… the overall character of a new US television system, high definition or HDTV, between the early 1980s and 2010, with a primary focus on the period leading up the Federal Communications Commission decision on the new standard in 1996. The study tries to answer the question: how did we get the …
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Exploring the Biocybernetic loop: Classifying Psychophysiological Responses to Cultural Artefacts using Physiological Computing
… the context of cultural heritage. The proposed system was designed to infer the interest or intention of the user and to augment elements of the cultural heritage experience interactively through implicit interaction. Implicit interaction in this context is the process whereby the system …
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Pedal Points: Harmony and the Double-Action Pedal System in Modern Harp Music
… the unique restraints and extensions of this technological system influence harmony and pitch collections in chromatic harp music. This thesis explores the pedal harp and the influence the affordance and idiomacy of the pedal layout exerts onto chromatic harp repertoire. It draws on embodiment …
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Designing disclosure
… design of a new social technology. The proposed technological system was aimed at addressing computer literacy within the Western Cape, through the design of a virtual learning utility. This project was embedded within an already established learning programme (Western Cape Government's Cape …
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Behind the mirror: rereading theatricality in Luciano Fabro's Allestimento Teatrale
… sculpture as a reflection of an alienating technological system of American capitalist production. As I argue, Fabro's construction of presence renders it an affectation, a manipulation of the public audience, and further that the reflection of the audience on the sides of the mirror cube …
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From artifact to site : understanding the canal in the city of gardens
… development of the vast canal irrigation system in the Punjab. I examine the Lahore Canal to evidence how it shapes not only the form of the city but also its character: at the end of the nineteenth century Lahore is transformed into a center of culture and refinement, "the city of …
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Regions and resources
… of sampling by transect and quadrat, land systems analysis, sample unit coverage and site recording. A technological system for classifying, recording and analysing stone artefacts was developed in order to compare the artefact assemblages within and among the sample areas. The results of …
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Regions and resources
… of sampling by transect and quadrat, land systems analysis, sample unit coverage and site recording. A technological system for classifying, recording and analysing stone artefacts was developed in order to compare the artefact assemblages within and among the sample areas. The results of …
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An investigation of the role of internet artworks in formulating a new communication model in the Internet
… and that the internet artist is considering the technological system as apart of the artwork, rather than as a medium to convey its theme. Furthermore, theuser is aware of the technological system's role that is combined with artwork, andthey are generally not expecting the artists to deconstruct …
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Technologies of Intelligence and Their Relation to National Security Policy: A Case Study of the U.S. and the V-2 Rocket
… to what Science and Technology Studies call a "technological system" or a" sociotechnical ensemble". Such a policy support tool is a mechanism socially constructed for the production of policy-relevant knowledge through integration of social and material components. It involves organizational …
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Maintaining the Atom: U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Life and the 80-Year Maintenance Regulation Regime
Large, ever more complex, technological systems surround us and provide products and services that both construct and define much of what we consider as modern society. Our societal bargain is the trade-off between the benefits of our technologies and our constant vigilance over the safe workings …
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Towards a Generalised Pedagogical Framework for Creating Mixed-Mode Role-Play in a 3D Virtual Environment
… an (often abstract) object which is part of a technological system and which occurs in a virtual world. This can lead to many benefits, such as being able to better support the students’ ability to imagine and visualize such objects, making them more engaged with their learning, enhancing their …
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The design and use of Internet-mediated communication applications in education: an ethnographic study
… include the pedagogical activity, as well as the technological system; 2) Scenarios are particularly useful as activity design representations (but. must be augmented with other representations of system design); 3) Collaborative design includes an inherent power asymmetry insofar as technologists …
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Application of CAST and STPA to railroad safety in China
The accident analysis method called STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model), developed by Prof. Nancy Leveson from MIT, was used here to re-analyze a High Speed Train accident in China. On July 23rd, 2011, 40 people were killed and 120 injured on the Yong-Wen High Speed Line. The purpose of this …
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Theory and Practice in the Study of Technological Systems
… those tools in combination to study complex technological systems in an historical context. The first chapter of the dissertation examines in detail four influential models by which complex technological systems have been analyzed: Hughes's system model, Bijker's social construction model, …
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Fibre Production Among the Coastal Hunter-gatherers of South America’s West Coast: New Narratives from Plant Fibre Technologies
… Period (10,000 – 3,500 BP) by studying the technological production of bast fibre artefacts from six archaeological sites in Peru and Chile. The raw materials, technological processes and manufacturing techniques were identified through archaeobotanical, structural and morphological analyses …
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The later stone age in Southern Cape, South Africa
… change. By comparison with modern technological data, innovative changes represent the diffusion and acceptance of major advances in tool technology that are predictable from trends observed in modern technology. Post-innovative or microevolutionary changes, on the other hand, take …