The wrong trousers

10 The wrong trousers? Beyond the design fallacy: social learning and the user

Introduction This chapter reflects critically upon how a substantial body of writings in technology studies and user-oriented computing have sought to conceptualize design – and their tacit and explicit presumptions about what is wrong with technology design/development processes as currently practised.1 Many of these analyses share a paradoxical view of design: presenting on the one hand a rat...

The Wrong Trousers? Beyond the Design Fallacy: Social Learning and the User

Technology studies and the user-oriented ‘wing’ of computer science have largely shared a ‘heroic’, albeit critical, vision of computer system design: that designers inscribe particular views of the user, user activities and priorities into the artefact, but these are often ‘the wrong values’, based on an inadequate or misleading view of the user and their requirements. Ethnographic studies of ...

Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they preventable?

HYPOTHESIS Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events (WSPEs) are devastating, unacceptable, and often result in litigation, but their frequency and root causes are unknown. Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient events are likely more common than realized, with little evidence that current prevention practice is adequate. DESIGN Analysis of se...

Inside the Wrong Body

The wrong suspect?

P atients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer a specifi c loss of dop-aminergic neurons from the mid-brain region that controls motor function. The exact mechanism of this selective neurodegeneration is unclear, though many lines of evidence point to dysfunctional mitochondrial complex I as one root cause of the disease. Yet Choi et al. now suggest that defective regulation of micro-tubules ma...