عنوان

Software Development and Reality Construction

(Number (ISBN

3642768172

(Number (ISBN

3642768199

(Number (ISBN

9783642768170

(Number (ISBN

9783642768194

Number

b573574

Title Proper

Software Development and Reality Construction

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Christiane Floyd, Heinz Züllighoven, Reinhard Budde, Reinhard Keil-Slawik.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(IX, 477 pages 20 illustrations)

Text of Note

Prologue --; 1 Thinking About Computer Science --; 1.1 Human Questions in Computer Science --; 1.2 Learning from our Errors --; 2 Living Computer Science --; 2.1 The Technical and the Human Side of Computer Science --; 2.2 Hermeneutics and Path --; 2.3 Computing: Yet Another Reality Construction --; 2.4 How Many Choices Do We Make? How Many Are Difficult? --; 2.5 From Scientific Practice to Epistemological Discovery --; 3 On Reality Construction --; 3.1 Self-Organization and Software Development --; 3.2 Software Development as Reality Construction --; 3.3 The Idea that Reality is Socially Constructed --; 4 Learning to Know --; 4.1 Scientific Expertise as a Social Process --; 4.2 How to Communicate Proofs or Programs --; 4.3 Making Errors, Making Sense, Making Use --; 4.4 Artifacts in Software Design --; 5 Computer Science and Beyond --; 5.1 The Denial of Error --; 5.2 Towards a New Understanding of Data Modelling --; 5.3 A Reappraisal of Information Science --; 6 Understanding the Computer Through Metaphors --; 6.1 Perspectives and Metaphors for Human-Computer Interaction --; 6.2 Software Tools in a Programming Workshop --; 6.3 Soft Engines --; Mass-Produced Software for Working People? --; 6.4 Artificial Intelligence: A Hermeneutic Defense --; 7 Designing for People --; 7.1 Shared Responsibility: A Field of Tension --; 7.2 A Subject-Oriented Approach to Information Systems --; 7.3 Anticipating Reality Construction --; 7.4 On Controllability --; 7.5 Work Design for Human Development --; 8 Epistemological Approaches to Informatics --; 8.1 Truth and Meaning Beyond Formalism --; 8.2 Informatics and Hermeneutics --; 8.3 Language and Software, or: Fritzl's Quest --; 8.4 Activity Theory as a Foundation for Design --; 8.5 Reflections on the Essence of Information --; Epilogue --; List of Authors.

Text of Note

This book takes up a variety of themes relating to human questions in computer science. The main topics addressed are: - The relationship between human beings and computers, - Software development as a human activity, - The use of computer programs in the human world, - The nature of computer science as a scientific discipline. Contributions by 33 authors belonging to different scientific disciplines are assembled to form a coherent whole. Some authors reflect on their own professional practice in computer science and system design. Others start from approaches developed in the humanities and the social sciences for understanding human learning and creativity, individual and cooperative work, and the interrelation between technology and organizations. Drawing on different philosophical traditions, they discuss the nature of software development and use as social processes in which we play an active role in constituting what we hold for real. The book will provide readers with theoretical foundations and a constructive orientation for practice in science and design.

Artificial intelligence.

Computer science.

Software engineering.

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Book number

edited by Christiane Floyd, Heinz Züllighoven, Reinhard Budde, Reinhard Keil-Slawik.

Christiane Floyd

Heinz Zullighoven

Reinhard Budde

Reinhard Keil-Slawik

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