Author: Nigel HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781552091449
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over three hundred photographs and diagrams provide examples for remodeling older homes.
Restoring Old Houses
Author: Nigel HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781552091449
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over three hundred photographs and diagrams provide examples for remodeling older homes.
Cognition in the Wild
Author: Edwin HutchinsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262581469
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation—its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory—"in the wild." Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen in the cracks between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that are different from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture: the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system. Introducing Navy life and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science—cognition as computation (adopting David Marr's paradigm)—to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that are larger than an individual. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition, pointing to the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations. A Bradford Book
Hutchins Improved:
Author: John Nathan HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Hoshin Kanri
Author: David HutchinsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317121236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The results of the quality revolution have been mixed. Global competition has elevated the most successful companies, in terms of providing goods and services, but even then initiatives such as total quality, business process re-engineering and Six Sigma have been heralded as the solution, only to have been replaced with the next 'big thing' when it came along. Hoshin Kanri is not the next big thing in quality, it is a strategic approach to continuous improvement that provides a context for all of the individual elements such as Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing. David Hutchins' Hoshin Kanri shows you how to develop a dynamic vision for continuous improvement; to implement effective policies to support it; to link key performance indicators to Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen and to sustain a strategy-led programme for improving business performance.
Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... for the Year of Our Lord 1799 ...
Author: Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris ... for the Year of Our Lord 1782 ...
Author: Hutchins Improved
Author: John Nathan. ue HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hutchins Improved
Author: John Nathan HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Hutchins Improved
Author: John Nathan HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Hutchins Improved
Author: John Nathan HutchinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description