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1 Telephone Help Desks
17 July 2007, by Administrator

The tool is more than the physical or digital object in itself. The tool includes the network of accompanying support, including documentation such as the user manual and technical support such as the help desk.
In recent years the help desk has become an increasingly important element of (...)

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3 Intuitive Use
17 July 2007, by Administrator

As electronic objects accumulate an ever increasing number of functions, they become more and more difficult to learn to use. One could give endless examples of small catastrophes resulting from failure to master overly-complex products, such as accidental erasure of photos in a digital camera, (...)
5 Durability
14 July 2007, by Administrator

There appear to be two meanings of the word durability with respect to technical products: life-cycle durability and database durability.
Life-cycle durability
In the first sense, durability refers to the length of the working life of tool. We could call this "life-cycle durability." A (...)
4 Economic Organisations seen as Implements
11 July 2007, by Administrator

It has been suggested in the previous articles that social theory tends to interpret social reality as a collective fact imposed upon the individual, and is generally blind to the possibility of individuals modelling social reality. Thus even social constructionism, which sees institutions as (...)
3 A Brief History of Social Theory from the Viewpoint of Conviviality
11 July 2007, by Administrator

The following is brief history of social theory, focusing on how social constructs have been seen as implements.
Plato’s Philosopher-King
It is generally held that the emergence of rational argumentation in the writings of the ancient Greek philosophers is linked with the emergence of (...)

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