Sociomaterial-Design Bounding Technologies in Practice /

• Main Authors: Bjørn, Pernille (Author), Østerlund, Carsten (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Health informatics.; Computers and civilization.; Management information systems.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Health Informatics.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Investigates theoretically and empirically what it means to design technological artefacts while embracing the large number of practices which practitioners engage with when handling technologies. The authors discusses the fields of design and sociomateriality through their shared interests towards...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction.-Part I: Theoretical Perspective
• Sociomateriality & Design
• Part II: Empirical Perspective
• Case Studies: Emergency Departments
• Analytical Approach to Study Sociomaterial Nature of Artefacts
• Bounding Practices
• Transforming the Sociomateriality of the Triage Template: Canadian ED
• Negotiating Agential Cuts: New Order Flags in U.S. ED
• Part III: Sociomaterial-Design
• Boundaries and Intra-Actions
• Sociomaterial-Design beyond Healthcare
• Implications of Sociomaterial-Design.