Lucy Suchman is Professor Emerita of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom,[1] also known for her work at Xerox PARC in the 1980s and 90s.
Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary war fighting, including problems of ‘situational awareness’ in military training and simulation, and in the design and deployment of automated weapon systems. At the center of this research is the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.[2] Suchman is a member of International Committee for Robot Arms Control[3] and the author of the blog dedicated to the problems of ethical robotics and 'technocultures of humanlike machines'[4]
Before coming to Lancaster, she worked for 22 years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California, where she held the positions of principal scientist and manager of the Work Practice and Technology research group.[1][5] While at PARC, she conducted an influential ethnographic study, using video, of office workers and research scientists struggling to use a copy machine.[6][7][8]
Suchman is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977, and Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984.[2] While at Berkeley, she wrote her dissertation critiquing the AI planning model as a basis for interactive interface design. She also studied procedural office work to understand how it was similar to and different from a program, and how assumptions about the work informed the design of information systems.
^ abAdelson, Beth (2003). "Bringing considerations of situated action to bear on the paradigm of cognitive modeling: the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science presented to Lucy Suchman". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 340 (3–4): 290. doi:10.1016/s0016-0032(03)00046-2.
^ abCite error: The named reference Suchman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Lucy Suchman". ICRAC. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
^Suchman, Lucy. "Lucy Suchman". Robot Futures. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
^"Agencies at the Interface: Colloquium with Lucy Suchman". MIT Media Lab. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
^"Mythbusting: Corporate Ethnography and the Giant Green Button". PARC. 3 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
^Gross, Ana; Suchman, Lucy (30 September 2021). "Lucy Suchman in Conversation with Ana Gross". Sociologica. 15 (2): 179–185. doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/13414. ISSN 1971-8853.
^Buderi, Robert (1 May 1998). "Field Work in the Tribal Office". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 19 December 2005. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
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