Intelligent systems in a human context : development, implications, and applications

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Intelligent systems in a human context : development, implications, and applications

edited by Linda A. Murray and John I.E. Richardson

Oxford University Press, 1989

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This work originated in a workshop organized in 1983 on behalf of the Social Science Research Council, concerned with the contribution of the social sciences to the development and understanding of intelligent knowledge-based systems. The collection of essays, by contributors who represent a variety of viewpoints deriving from the different aspects of the intelligent systems enterprise with which they are concerned, looks at the development, application and implications of intelligent systems. The development of such systems is discussed, with particular reference to those areas where the contributions of social scientists may assist progress. Topics such as the role of the human expert, how best to represent knowledge, the interface between the user and the machine and the organizational context in which intelligent systems are deployed are addressed. Applications of intelligent systems in medicine and education and their potential as consumer products are described. Implications of the intelligent systems enterprise for sociology and for social anthropological study are also considered. The work should be of interest to the generalist reader (as it does not deal with the technical aspects of intelligent systems), computer scientists, social scientists and students of computer science and social science.

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  • Artificial intelligence - opportunities and dangers, Margaret Boden
  • human interface aspects of expert systems, Richard Young
  • human experts and expert systems, Philip Johnson-Laird
  • connectionist systems - information technology goes brain-like (again!), Igor Aleksander
  • why not a sociology of machines? - an evaluation of prospects for an association between sociology and artificial intelligence, Steven Woolgar
  • distributed artificial intelligence and the modelling of socio-cultural systems, Jim Doran
  • features of advisory and expert systems, John Anderson
  • the educational implications of intelligent systems, Michael Beveridge, intelligent systems off the shelf - the high street consumer and artificial intelligence, Neil Frude
  • the meeting of man and machine, Margaret Boden.

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