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Cycle of quality & wits to survive
In traditional artisan’s context, where the user and the maker shared time and place, there was an…
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Reference to profound experience
The way references and values will be understood in a technology context is highly dependent on how…
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No possibility of a shared meaning
Aditya Dev Sood argues that a user is someone who is aware of the instrumentality of his or her…
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Infrastructure and human beings adapt
The technological systems that humans have developed in the last 80,000 years have been possible by…
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Appropriate levels of empathy with user
Healthy organizations ensure that user-centred thinking exists within the community of engineers
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Transcript Sood
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Humanness at the centre
When suggesting that technology actually functions as a social engineering tool, Narayanan…
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Systems of knowledge
Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets…
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Being witness is context defined
When addressing witnessed presence in crisis situations, Parthasarathi elaborated on the media…
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Outsourcing industry
Dr. Carol Upadhya and colleagues have conducted a considerable number of interviews in India’s IT…
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Being Indian, yet a global employee
Big Indian outsourcing companies like WIPRO, Infosys, TCS have developed their own models and they…
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Monitoring of workflow
Only after a considerable amount of work in which trust is built through a rigorous monitoring and…
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Seemingly flat and open structures
When inquiring about the nature of the work, very few people are self-conscious and can articulate…
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Need to meet: Presence and Absence
As a sociologist going into all these companies, it is interesting for Upadhya to think about…
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Dynamical hierarchy in an engineered ‘free’ space
Upadhya’s observation is that every project faces a crisis at some point. And often it is a problem…
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Tsunami 2004: Who’s doing What and Where
When the Tsunami hit on the 26th of December 2004, Dinesh was taking some relaxed time close to one…