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Technical artifacts are taken to include all the common objects of everyday life, such as chairs, televisions, paper clips, telephones, smartphones and dog collars. They are material objects, the engineered things of world that have been intentionally produced by humans in order to fulfill a practical function.
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Turner, R. (2018). Computational Artifacts. In: Computational Artifacts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55565-1_3
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