Convivial Tools
1 Illich and Convivial Philosophy 2 Movements Related to Convivial Tools 3 Design of Convivial Tools 4 Product Life of the Convivial Tool 5 About Us
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1 Illich and Convivial Philosophy
1 What are Convivial Tools?
2 Ivan Illich
3 Illich’s book "Tools for Conviviality"
4 Illich foresees the Internet
5 The Borremans Guide to Convivial Tools
6 Lee Felsenstein and the Convivial Computer
7 Historical Roots of Convivial Philosophy

2 Movements Related to Convivial Tools
1 Appropriate Technology
2 The Whole Earth Catalog and Spin-offs

3 Design of Convivial Tools

3.1 Characteristics of Convivial Tools
1 The Characteristics of Convivial Tools
2 Usability
3 Intuitive Use
4 Reparability
5 Durability
6 Others

3.2 Approaches to Design of Technical Tools
1 User Centered Design

3.3 Open Source Design
2 The Free Software Movement
3 Open Source Hardware

4 Product Life of the Convivial Tool
1 Specific Technical Tools to be discussed on the User Guide Site
2 On-line Information about Technical Tools

4.3 Technical Documentation (User Manuals, On-Line Help)
1 User Manuals

4.4 After-Sales Service
1 Telephone Help Desks

5 About Us
1 About Us
2 How You Can Help
3 Software Used for This Site
4 Host Server for this Site
5 History of this Website
6 License for the pages on this site

7 Original Research

1.1 Introduction
2 Inner Structure of this Website

1.4 Towards an Encyclopedia of Convivial Tools
1 Why an Encyclopedia of Convivial Tools?
2 Is this Website an Encyclopedia?

3 Mental Conviviality

3 Original Research on Social Conviviality
2 Social Terminology: Systems, Institutions, Organisations, Services and Tools
3 A Brief History of Social Theory from the Viewpoint of Conviviality
4 Economic Organisations seen as Implements

4 Original Research on Personal Conviviality
2 Techniques at the Service of the Individual

4 Social Conviviality

5 Other Articles in Temporary Storage
3 Planned Table of Contents for this Site

5 Personal Conviviality

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