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What I found interesting in this paper is Verillon’s exposition of the notion of instrument and its relation to the artefact.

The first interesting distinction is that between Piaget’s “epistemic subject”, which is concerned with the generation of new knowledge and the “pragmatic subject”, which is concerned with altering the world. In essence this distinction by […]

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This paper is concerned with the design of an electric oven with advanced programming features. The new oven was to replace older designs, which lacked usability due to the accumulation of features. The new design had the constraint of an LCD screen and six soft keys. This constraint was set so that the new design […]

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