Hitting the Brakes : Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge /
In Hitting the Brakes, Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge. Using the development of antilock braking systems for passenger cars as a case study, Johnso...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Design and the knowledge community
- Genealogy of knowledge communities and their artifacts
- The British Road Research Laboratory : constructing the questions
- The track and the lab : brake testing from dynamometers to simulations
- From things back to ideas : constructing theories of vehicle dynamics
- Learning from failure : antilock systems emerge in the United States
- Eines ist sicher! Successful antilock systems in West Germany
- Public proprietary knowledge? Knowledge communities between the private and public sectors
- ABS and risk compensation.