Yasuko Kawatoko
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasuko Kawatoko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawatoko |
| SIGNATURE | KAWATOKO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Daito Bunka University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Special Issue on the Scholarship of Naoki Ueno
Naoki Ueno passed away suddenly 2 years ago. He was a creative opponent of “cognitivism,” a great supporter of the situated approach, and an inspiration to his colleagues given his nonpsychological
Forming and Transforming Weavers’ Agency: Agency in Sociotechnical Arrangements
The Yuzuru party, a women weavers’ group, has fostered its agency for being responsible for sharing hand-weaving skills in producing traditional Matsusaka cotton with the next generation. Through the interactive activities with people and communities concerning Matsusaka cotton, Yuzuru members have reshaped their agency. Based on ethnographic research, this paper describes the process of collective formation of agency, shaped by the hybridization…
Talking about skill: Making objects, technologies and communities visible
Through an analysis of scientific practice and discourse, this paper explores an aspect of how work communities are constituted. It explores how scientists in a biotechnology laboratory make a research object visible or organize it. It is argued that making a work object visible is part of the display of skill or technique in laboratory work. Making scientific products visible can involve making skill and community visible. When describing certai…
Technologies Making Space Visible
Studies of information technologies in workplaces are of growing significance to people in a broad range of professions and organizations, particularly those involved in the development of new technologies. The authors examine two kinds of information technologies for the support of service technicians, which have been developed in a copier customer service and support company. One is a mobile self-dispatch system with which service technicians m…
Organizing Multiple Vision
In a factory that produces large quantities of precision metal parts through the use of computer-controlled lathes, workers from different divisions of labor such as lathe operators, inspectors, and managers organize multiple vision to make cutting processes and the quality of products visible. The first part of this article investigates how the lathe operators juxtapose a range of different kinds of documents and artifacts to both program their …
Organizing Multiple Vision
Space, Time and Documents in a Refrigerated Warehouse
Social rules in practice: “Legal” literacy practice in nepalese agricultural village communities
This research study explores the development of new literary practices in the context of wet‐rice farming in Nepal. Designated “legal literacy” by the author, the new practice is socially organized around communal irrigation and involves the social construction of the “reality” of new relations berreen the farmers as well as the establishment of social rules which are codified in a “rulebook.” The ideological practice which establishes the materi…
Space, Time and Documents in a Refrigerated Warehouse
Technologies Making Space Visible
Studies of information technologies in workplaces are of growing significance to people in a broad range of professions and organizations, particularly those involved in the development of new technologies. The authors examine two kinds of information technologies for the support of service technicians, which have been developed in a copier customer service and support company. One is a mobile self-dispatch system with which service technicians m…
Social rules in practice: “Legal” literacy practice in nepalese agricultural village communities
This research study explores the development of new literary practices in the context of wet‐rice farming in Nepal. Designated “legal literacy” by the author, the new practice is socially organized around communal irrigation and involves the social construction of the “reality” of new relations berreen the farmers as well as the establishment of social rules which are codified in a “rulebook.” The ideological practice which establishes the materi…
Space, Time and Documents in a Refrigerated Warehouse
Organizing Multiple Vision
In a factory that produces large quantities of precision metal parts through the use of computer-controlled lathes, workers from different divisions of labor such as lathe operators, inspectors, and managers organize multiple vision to make cutting processes and the quality of products visible. The first part of this article investigates how the lathe operators juxtapose a range of different kinds of documents and artifacts to both program their …
Organizing Multiple Vision
Talking about skill: Making objects, technologies and communities visible
Through an analysis of scientific practice and discourse, this paper explores an aspect of how work communities are constituted. It explores how scientists in a biotechnology laboratory make a research object visible or organize it. It is argued that making a work object visible is part of the display of skill or technique in laboratory work. Making scientific products visible can involve making skill and community visible. When describing certai…
Technologies Making Space Visible
Studies of information technologies in workplaces are of growing significance to people in a broad range of professions and organizations, particularly those involved in the development of new technologies. The authors examine two kinds of information technologies for the support of service technicians, which have been developed in a copier customer service and support company. One is a mobile self-dispatch system with which service technicians m…
A Special Issue on the Scholarship of Naoki Ueno
Naoki Ueno passed away suddenly 2 years ago. He was a creative opponent of “cognitivism,” a great supporter of the situated approach, and an inspiration to his colleagues given his nonpsychological
Forming and Transforming Weavers’ Agency: Agency in Sociotechnical Arrangements
The Yuzuru party, a women weavers’ group, has fostered its agency for being responsible for sharing hand-weaving skills in producing traditional Matsusaka cotton with the next generation. Through the interactive activities with people and communities concerning Matsusaka cotton, Yuzuru members have reshaped their agency. Based on ethnographic research, this paper describes the process of collective formation of agency, shaped by the hybridization…
Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer vision (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)