LEADER 04441nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910962936003321 005 20251116141303.0 010 $a0-262-27525-2 010 $a0-585-08739-3 035 $a(CKB)111000211169364 035 $a(OCoLC)42856204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001035 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214610 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12059301 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214610 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167146 035 $a(PQKB)10933254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338437 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2001035 035 $a(OCoLC)923251657 035 $a(BIP)58650131 035 $a(BIP)42573397 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211169364 100 $a19980116d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn line and on paper $evisual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering /$fKathryn Henderson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 1 $aInside technology 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-262-51914-3 311 08$a0-262-08269-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index. 327 $aOn Line and On Paper -- Contents -- Preface -- On Line and On Paper -- Introduction -- Coding and Claiming: Codification and the Rise of Engineering as a Profession -- The Visual Culture of Engineers: Drawing, Seeing, and Standardizing Perception -- The Yellow Brick Road to Production: Development of a Turbine Engine Package -- The Political Career of a Prototype: Development of a Precision Medical Instrument -- Computer Graphics in Design Engineering: How and Why Changes in Visual Culture Cause Restructuring -- Mixed- Use Practices: Combining the Electronic World and the Paper World -- The Aura of ''High Tech'' in a World of Messy Practice: Standardization, Mystification, and Glamour -- The Power of Visual Representation: Mixed Practices, Multivisual Competencies, and Meta- Indexicals -- Notes -- References -- Index. 330 $aThe role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political support, and power. Henderson's analysis of the collective nature of knowledge in technical design work is based on her participant observation of practices in two industrial settings. In one she follows the evolution of a turbine engine package from design to production, and in the other she examines the development of an innovative surgical tool. In both cases she describes the messy realities of design practice, including the mixed use of the worlds of paper and computer graphics. One of the goals of the book is to lay a practice-informed groundwork for the creation of more usable computer tools. Henderson also explores the relationship between the historical development of engineering as a profession and the standardization of engineering knowledge, and then addresses the question: Just what is high technology, and how does its affect the extent to which people will allow their working habits to be disrupted and restructured? Finally, to help explain why visual representations are so powerful, Henderson develops the concept of "metaindexicality"--the ability of a visual representation, used interactively, to combine many diverse levels of knowledge and thus to serve as a meeting ground (and sometimes battleground) for many types of workers. 410 0$aInside technology. 606 $aEngineering design 606 $aComputer graphics 606 $aVisual communication 615 0$aEngineering design. 615 0$aComputer graphics. 615 0$aVisual communication. 676 $a620/.0042/0285 700 $aHenderson$b Kathryn$0625109 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962936003321 996 $aOn line and on paper$94471853 997 $aUNINA