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Lucy Suchman, PhD is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom. She has taught several courses including Virtual Cultures, Anthropology of Cybercultures, and Gender, Sexuality and Society. These courses included instruction on new forms of information and communications media, the quality of digital artefacts, and issues concerning feminists in media research.〔 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 laboratory.〔 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 new humanlike machines. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2008/program-overview/invited-speakers.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucy Suchman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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