Open AccessA Tool Perspective on Design of Interactive Computer Support for Skilled Workers
Author(s) -
Pelle Ehn,
Morten Kyng
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
daimi pb
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-9316
pISSN - 0105-8517
DOI - 10.7146/dpb.v14i190.6547
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , process (computing) , work (physics) , inclusion (mineral) , production (economics) , focus (optics) , computer science , knowledge management , sociology , engineering , artificial intelligence , social science , programming language , economics , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , macroeconomics
This paper presents a conceptual framework, useful when designing computer support for skilled workers. We call this framework a tool perspective . It has emerged as a result of a growing dissatisfaction with the systems perspective , which tends to give an outwardly understanding, making men, machines and materials look alike and reducing work to algorithmic procedures, some of them candidates for inclusion into the edp programs. The tool perspective takes the labour process as its origin rather than data or information flow, emphasising the development of tools to be used with skill by workers in control of the production. Development of professional education is in focus, rather than detailed analysis and description of the work.