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A Break from Novelty: Persistence and Effects of Structural Tensions in User–Designer Relations

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Notes

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    Weaver to O.E. Hunt, Detroit, 1932. Charles F. Kettering papers, GMI Alumni Historical Collection, Flint, Michigan. Reprinted with the permission of GM media archives.

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    Weaver is usually credited as the person who transformed customer surveys from a scientific technique into a widespread method used by the industry (Marchand 1998). I wish to thank Mika Pantzar for drawing my attention to Weaver’s ideas and Marchand’s discussion of them.

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    It is noteworthy that the same attributes and the shift from artisan to industrial production are lamented on similar grounds by 19th century authors, with a portrayal of a similar past golden age. Karl Marx’s lengthy discussion of the deskilling of labour in industrial production is a prime example (Marx 1990, pp. 439–553).

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    Diabetes is an incurable long-term illness. In the long run it leads to, for instance, kidney failures, heart attacks, and blindness. These complications can be countered by maintaining ‘a good treatment balance’, mainly right blood-sugar level, with diet and medication. A large amount of documentation is produced and used to control the disease over the years. For this purpose, paper forms have been the main tool, currently sought to be replaced by software.

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    The original participants in the PDMS collaboration knew only a few of these, and the whole scope of the previous attempts in different hospital districts became visible only when we took it upon ourselves to go through all the hospital districts in Finland (Hyysalo and Lehenkari 2003).

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