Misplaced Pages

Lucy Suchman: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 00:59, 23 December 2016 editAndrewClement (talk | contribs)97 editsm Removed course listings that are no longer current. Updated research interests to reflect home page. Corrected nationality, providing birthplace instead. Added three recent publications.Tag: Visual edit← Previous edit Revision as of 01:37, 23 December 2016 edit undoAndrewClement (talk | contribs)97 editsm Further minor corrections to publicationsTag: Visual editNext edit →
Line 25: Line 25:
|footnotes = |footnotes =
}} }}
'''Lucy Suchman''', PhD is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at ], in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Adelson 2003 290">{{cite journal|last=Adelson|first=Beth|title=Bringing considerations of situated action to bear on the paradigm of cognitive modeling: the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science presented to Lucy Suchman|journal=Journal of the Franklin Institute|year=2003|volume=340|pages=290|doi=10.1016/s0016-0032(03)00046-2}}</ref> Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary war fighting, including problems of ‘situational awareness’ in military training and simulation, and in the design and deployment of automated weapon systems.  At the center of this research is the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.<ref name="Suchman" /> Before coming to Lancaster, she worked for 22 years at Xerox's ], where she held the positions of Principal Scientist and Manager of the Work Practice and Technology laboratory.<ref name="Adelson 2003 290"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Agencies at the Interface: Colloquium with Lucy Suchman |url=http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2009/05/11/agencies-interface-colloquium-lucy-suchman |work=MIT Media Lab |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |accessdate=25 November 2012}}</ref> '''Lucy Suchman''', PhD is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at ], in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Adelson 2003 290">{{cite journal|last=Adelson|first=Beth|title=Bringing considerations of situated action to bear on the paradigm of cognitive modeling: the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science presented to Lucy Suchman|journal=Journal of the Franklin Institute|year=2003|volume=340|pages=290|doi=10.1016/s0016-0032(03)00046-2}}</ref> Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary war fighting, including problems of ‘situational awareness’ in military training and simulation, and in the design and deployment of automated weapon systems.  At the center of this research is the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.<ref name="Suchman" /> Before coming to Lancaster, she worked for 22 years at Xerox's ], where she held the positions of Principal Scientist and Manager of the Work Practice and Technology research group.<ref name="Adelson 2003 290"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Agencies at the Interface: Colloquium with Lucy Suchman |url=http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2009/05/11/agencies-interface-colloquium-lucy-suchman |work=MIT Media Lab |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |accessdate=25 November 2012}}</ref>
Suchman is a graduate of the ], obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977 and a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984.<ref name="Suchman" /> Suchman is a graduate of the ], obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977 and a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984.<ref name="Suchman" />


Line 32: Line 32:
She has made fundamental contributions to ethnographic analysis, conversational analysis and Participatory Design techniques for the development of interactive computer systems.<ref name="Suchman" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Suchman|first=Lucy|title=Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication|year=1987|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=203}}</ref> She has made fundamental contributions to ethnographic analysis, conversational analysis and Participatory Design techniques for the development of interactive computer systems.<ref name="Suchman" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Suchman|first=Lucy|title=Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication|year=1987|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=203}}</ref>


An updated version of the book was published in 2007. This second edition, called ''Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Action'', included five new chapters exploring developments in the field of computing and social studies technology since the mid-1980s.<ref name="Suchman" /> Specifically, Suchman addressed the relationship and interactions between humans and machines with a focus on the new humanlike machines.<ref>{{cite book|last=Suchman|first=Lucy|title=Human-machine reconfigurations : plans and situated actions|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=314}}</ref> An updated version of the book was published in 2007. This second edition, called ''Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Action'', included five new chapters exploring developments in the field of computing and social studies technology since the mid-1980s.<ref name="Suchman" /> Specifically, Suchman addressed the relationship and interactions between humans and machines with a focus on the idea of human-like machines.<ref>{{cite book|last=Suchman|first=Lucy|title=Human-machine reconfigurations : plans and situated actions|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=314}}</ref>

Lucy Suchman's research focus is on ethnographies behind technology and how technology has led to re-thinking of the relationship between feminist theory, anthropology and science.<ref>{{cite web|title=Invited Speakers|url=http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2008/program-overview/invited-speakers.html|work=OOPSLA Conference|authorlink=Invited Speakers}}</ref>

==Professional affiliations== ==Professional affiliations==
In 1988, Suchman served as the Program Chair for the Second Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.<ref name="Suchman" /> She also served as the Program Chair for the first Conference on Participatory Design of Computer Systems.<ref name="Suchman" /> Between 1982 and 1990, Suchman was on the board of directors of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a group she helped to form.<ref name="Suchman" /> Suchman is currently a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.<ref name="Suchman" /> In addition, she serves as a Collaborating Editor for ''Social Studies of Science''.<ref name="Suchman" /> In 1988, Suchman served as the Program Chair for the Second Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.<ref name="Suchman" /> She also served as the Program Chair for the first Conference on Participatory Design of Computer Systems.<ref name="Suchman" /> Between 1982 and 1990, Suchman was on the board of directors of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a group she helped to form.<ref name="Suchman" /> Suchman is currently a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.<ref name="Suchman" /> In addition, she serves as a Collaborating Editor for ''Social Studies of Science''.<ref name="Suchman" />
Line 48: Line 45:
*Suchman, L. and Blomberg, J. and Orr, J. E. (1999) Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice. The American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (3). pp.&nbsp;392–408. *Suchman, L. and Blomberg, J. and Orr, J. E. (1999) Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice. The American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (3). pp.&nbsp;392–408.
*Suchman, L. (2000) Embodied Practices of Engineering Work. Mind, Culture and Activity, 7 (1&2). pp.&nbsp;4–18. *Suchman, L. (2000) Embodied Practices of Engineering Work. Mind, Culture and Activity, 7 (1&2). pp.&nbsp;4–18.
*Suchman, L. (October 2000) Paper presented at the Sawyer Seminar on Heterarchies, Santa Fe Institute.
*Suchman, L. (2000) Making a case: knowledge and routine work in document production. In: Workplace studies : recovering work practice and informing system design. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.&nbsp;29–45. *Suchman, L. (2000) Making a case: knowledge and routine work in document production. In: Workplace studies : recovering work practice and informing system design. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.&nbsp;29–45.
*Suchman, L. (2000) Organising alignment : a case of bridge-building. Organization, 7 (2). pp.&nbsp;311–327. *Suchman, L. (2000) Organising alignment : a case of bridge-building. Organization, 7 (2). pp.&nbsp;311–327.
Line 55: Line 51:
*Suchman, L. A. and Blomberg, J. and Trigg, R. (2002) Working Artefacts: Ethnomethods of the prototype. British Journal of Sociology, 53 (2). pp.&nbsp;163–179. *Suchman, L. A. and Blomberg, J. and Trigg, R. (2002) Working Artefacts: Ethnomethods of the prototype. British Journal of Sociology, 53 (2). pp.&nbsp;163–179.
*Suchman, L. (2003) Figuring service in discourses of ICT: the case of software agent. In: Global and Organizational Discourses about Information Technology. International Federation for Information Processing . Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp.&nbsp;15–32. *Suchman, L. (2003) Figuring service in discourses of ICT: the case of software agent. In: Global and Organizational Discourses about Information Technology. International Federation for Information Processing . Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp.&nbsp;15–32.
*Suchman, L. (2003) Organising alignment. In: Knowing in organisations : a practice-based approach. M. E. Sharpe, London, pp.&nbsp;187–203. *Suchman, L. (2003) Organising alignment. In: Knowing in organisations: a practice-based approach. M. E. Sharpe, London, pp.&nbsp;187–203.
*Suchman, L. (2004) Decentring the manager/designer. In: Managing as designing. Stanford Business Books, Stanford, pp.&nbsp;169–73. *Suchman, L. (2004) Decentring the manager/designer. In: Managing as designing. Stanford Business Books, Stanford, pp.&nbsp;169–73.
*Suchman, L. (2004) Methods and madness. In: First person : new media as story, performance, and game. MIT Press, London, pp.&nbsp;95–98. *Suchman, L. (2004) Methods and madness. In: First person : new media as story, performance, and game. MIT Press, London, pp.&nbsp;95–98.
Line 61: Line 57:
*Suchman, L. (2005) Affiliative Objects. Organization, 12 (3). pp.&nbsp;379–399. *Suchman, L. (2005) Affiliative Objects. Organization, 12 (3). pp.&nbsp;379–399.
*Suchman, L. (2006) "Wajcman confronts cyberfeminism." Social Studies of Science. *Suchman, L. (2006) "Wajcman confronts cyberfeminism." Social Studies of Science.
*Suchman, L. (February 2007) . Paper presented at the Colloquium on Interdisciplinarity and Society, Oxford University.
*Suchman, L. (2007) Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial. In: New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. MIT Press. *Suchman, L. (2007) Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial. In: New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. MIT Press.
*Suchman, L. (2007) ''Human-Machine Reconfigurations.'' Cambridge University Press, New York. *Suchman, L. (2007) ''Human-Machine Reconfigurations.'' Cambridge University Press, New York.
*Suchman, L. (2011) "Practice and its overflows: Reflections on order and mess." TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 2(1):21–30. *Suchman, L. (2011) Practice and its overflows: Reflections on order and mess. TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 2(1):21–30.
*Suchman, L. (2011) "Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design." Annual Review of Anthropology, 40: 1–18. *Suchman, L. (2011) Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design. Annual Review of Anthropology, 40: 1–18.
*Suchman, L. (2011) "Subject Objects." Feminist Theory, 12 (2): 119–145. *Suchman, L. (2011) Subject Objects. Feminist Theory, 12 (2): 119–145.
*Suchman, L. (2013) Consuming Anthropology. A. Barry & G. Borrn (Eds.), Interdisciplinary: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences, (pp. 141-160). London: Routledge.
*Suchman, L. (2015). Situational Awareness: Deadly bioconvergence at the boundaries of bodies and machines Media Tropes, V(1), 1-24. *Suchman, L. (2015). Situational Awareness: Deadly bioconvergence at the boundaries of bodies and machines Media Tropes, V(1), 1-24.
*Suchman, L. (2016). Configuring the Other: Sensing War through Immersive Simulation. Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience, 2(1). *Suchman, L. (2016). Configuring the Other: Sensing War through Immersive Simulation. Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience, 2(1).

Revision as of 01:37, 23 December 2016

Lucy Suchman
Lucy Suchman
BornIthaca, New York
Occupation(s)Professor, anthropologist
EmployerLancaster University
Known forHuman–computer interaction
Websitelancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/31/

Lucy Suchman, PhD is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom. Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary war fighting, including problems of ‘situational awareness’ in military training and simulation, and in the design and deployment of automated weapon systems.  At the center of this research is the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world. Before coming to Lancaster, she worked for 22 years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where she held the positions of Principal Scientist and Manager of the Work Practice and Technology research group. Suchman is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977 and a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984.

Research

Suchman's book, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication (1987), provided intellectual foundations for the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). She challenged common assumptions behind the design of interactive systems with a cogent anthropological argument that human action is constantly constructed and reconstructed from dynamic interactions with the material and social worlds. The theory of situated cognition emphasises the importance of the environment as an integral part of the cognitive process. She has made fundamental contributions to ethnographic analysis, conversational analysis and Participatory Design techniques for the development of interactive computer systems.

An updated version of the book was published in 2007. This second edition, called Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Action, included five new chapters exploring developments in the field of computing and social studies technology since the mid-1980s. Specifically, Suchman addressed the relationship and interactions between humans and machines with a focus on the idea of human-like machines.

Professional affiliations

In 1988, Suchman served as the Program Chair for the Second Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. She also served as the Program Chair for the first Conference on Participatory Design of Computer Systems. Between 1982 and 1990, Suchman was on the board of directors of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a group she helped to form. Suchman is currently a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. In addition, she serves as a Collaborating Editor for Social Studies of Science.

Suchman is also affiliated with numerous academic institutions. She is the current president of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She has served as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow with King's College London's Work, Interaction and Technology Research Group and as an Adjunct Professor for the Interaction Design and Work Practice Laboratory at Sydney's University of Technology. Suchman currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Information Technology University in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Publications

  • Suchman, L. (1987) Plans and situated actions : The Problem of Human-Machine Communication. Cambridge University Press, New York.
  • Suchman, L. (1993) Response to Vera and Simon's Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation. Cognitive Science, 17:71—75, 1993.
  • Suchman, L. (1995) Making Work Visible. Communications of the ACM, 38 (9). pp. 56–61+.
  • Suchman, L. (1995) Representations of Work (Special Report). Communications of the ACM, 38 (9). pp. 33–68.
  • Suchman, L. and Blomberg, J. and Orr, J. E. (1999) Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice. The American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (3). pp. 392–408.
  • Suchman, L. (2000) Embodied Practices of Engineering Work. Mind, Culture and Activity, 7 (1&2). pp. 4–18.
  • Suchman, L. (2000) Making a case: knowledge and routine work in document production. In: Workplace studies : recovering work practice and informing system design. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 29–45.
  • Suchman, L. (2000) Organising alignment : a case of bridge-building. Organization, 7 (2). pp. 311–327.
  • Suchman, L. and Bishop, L. (2000) Problematizing 'Innovation' as a Critical Project. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 12 (3). pp. 327–333.
  • Suchman, L. (2002) Practice-based design of information systems : notes from the hyperdeveloped world. The Information Society, 18 (2). pp. 139–144.
  • Suchman, L. A. and Blomberg, J. and Trigg, R. (2002) Working Artefacts: Ethnomethods of the prototype. British Journal of Sociology, 53 (2). pp. 163–179.
  • Suchman, L. (2003) Figuring service in discourses of ICT: the case of software agent. In: Global and Organizational Discourses about Information Technology. International Federation for Information Processing . Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 15–32.
  • Suchman, L. (2003) Organising alignment. In: Knowing in organisations: a practice-based approach. M. E. Sharpe, London, pp. 187–203.
  • Suchman, L. (2004) Decentring the manager/designer. In: Managing as designing. Stanford Business Books, Stanford, pp. 169–73.
  • Suchman, L. (2004) Methods and madness. In: First person : new media as story, performance, and game. MIT Press, London, pp. 95–98.
  • Suchman, L. (2004) Talking things. In: First person : new media as story, performance, and game. MIT Press, London, pp. 262–265.
  • Suchman, L. (2005) Affiliative Objects. Organization, 12 (3). pp. 379–399.
  • Suchman, L. (2006) "Wajcman confronts cyberfeminism." Social Studies of Science.
  • Suchman, L. (2007) Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial. In: New Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. MIT Press.
  • Suchman, L. (2007) Human-Machine Reconfigurations. Cambridge University Press, New York.
  • Suchman, L. (2011) Practice and its overflows: Reflections on order and mess. TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 2(1):21–30.
  • Suchman, L. (2011) Anthropological Relocations and the Limits of Design. Annual Review of Anthropology, 40: 1–18.
  • Suchman, L. (2011) Subject Objects. Feminist Theory, 12 (2): 119–145.
  • Suchman, L. (2013) Consuming Anthropology. A. Barry & G. Borrn (Eds.), Interdisciplinary: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences, (pp. 141-160). London: Routledge.
  • Suchman, L. (2015). Situational Awareness: Deadly bioconvergence at the boundaries of bodies and machines Media Tropes, V(1), 1-24.
  • Suchman, L. (2016). Configuring the Other: Sensing War through Immersive Simulation. Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience, 2(1).
  • Suchman, L., & Weber, J. (2016). Human-Machine Autonomies. In N. Bhuta, S. Beck, R. Geis, H.-Y. Liu, & C. Kreis (Eds.), Autonomous Weapons Systems (pp. 75-102). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ Adelson, Beth (2003). "Bringing considerations of situated action to bear on the paradigm of cognitive modeling: the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science presented to Lucy Suchman". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 340: 290. doi:10.1016/s0016-0032(03)00046-2.
  2. ^ "Professor Lucy Suchman". Lancaster University.
  3. "Agencies at the Interface: Colloquium with Lucy Suchman". MIT Media Lab. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  4. Suchman, Lucy (1987). Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-machine Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 203.
  5. Suchman, Lucy (2007). Human-machine reconfigurations : plans and situated actions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 314.
  6. "2010 SIGCHI Awards". SIGCHI.
  7. Professor Lucy Suchman to be made Honorary Doctor Malmö University
  8. "Bernal Prize". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 9 October 2014.

External links

Preceded byMarvin Minsky Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
2002 		Succeeded byJohn McCarthy (computer scientist)
Categories: