Human-Machine Reconfigurations 2nd Edition Hardback: Plans and Situated Actions (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) - Hardcover

'... a wide ranging and ambitious book,and makes an important contribution to studies of technology, action and agency. ... the text remains readable and informative and makes a valuable and important intervention in the field.' British Journal of Sociology

Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. She is also the Co-Director of Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies. Before her post at Lancaster University, she spent 20 years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Her research focused on the social and material practices that make up technical systems, which was explored through critical studies and experimental and participatory projects in new technology design. In 2002, she received the Diana Forsythe Prize for Outstanding Feminist Anthropological Research in Science, Technology and Medicine.