Lucy A. Suchman

Author: Lucy A. Suchman

Lucy Suchman is a full Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom. She has taught several courses including Virtual Cultures, Anthropology of Cybercultures, and Gender, Sexuality and Society. These courses included instruction on new forms of information and communications media, the quality of digital artifacts, and issues concerning feminists in media research. Before coming to Lancaster, she worked for 22 years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where she held the positions of Principal Scientist and Manager of the Work Practice and Technology laboratory. Suchman is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977 and a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984.

Publications

Publication period start: 1983
Number of co-authors: 36

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Marilyn Mantei
2
Jeanette L. Blomberg
2
Randall H. Trigg
3

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Wendy E. Mackay
61
Bonnie A. Nardi
67
Jonathan Grudin
105

Publications

Suchman, Lucy A. (2002): Practice-based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the hyper-developed world. In The Information Society, 18 (2) pp. . https://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/readers/abstracts/18/18-2%20Suchman.html

Trigg, Randall H., Blomberg, Jeanette L., Suchman, Lucy A. (1999): Moving document collections online: The evolution of a shared repository. In: Boedker, Susanne, Kyng, Morten, Schmidt, Kjeld (eds.) ECSCW 99 - Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 12-16 September, 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp. 331.

Koschmann, Timothy, Anderson, Anne, Hall, Rogers, Heath, Christian, LeBaron, Curtis, Olson, Judith S., Suchman, Lucy A. (1998): Six Readings of a Single Text: A Videoanalytic Session. In: Poltrock, Steven, Grudin, Jonathan (eds.) Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 14 - 18, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 407-409. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/cscw/289444/p407-koschmann/p407-koschmann.pdf

Blomberg, Jeanette L., Suchman, Lucy A., Trigg, Randall H. (1996): Reflections on a Work-Oriented Design Project. In Human-Computer Interaction, 11 (3) pp. 237-265.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1995): Representations of Work - Preface to the Special Section. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (9) pp. 33-35.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1995): Making Work Visible. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (9) pp. 56-64.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1994): Working relations of technology production and use. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2 (1) pp. 21-39. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00749282

Suchman, Lucy A. (1994): Do categories have politics?. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2 (3) pp. 177-190. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00749015

Suchman, Lucy A. (1994): Speech acts and voices: Response to Winograd et al. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 3 (1) pp. 85-95. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01305852

Suchman, Lucy A. (1993): Do Categories Have Politics? The Language/Action Perspective Reconsidered. In: Michelis, Giorgio De, Simone, Carla, Schmidt, Kjeld (eds.) ECSCW 93 - Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work , 1993, . pp. 1-14.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1993): Response to Vera and Simon\'s Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation. In Cognitive Science, 17 (1) pp. 71-75.

Blomberg, Jeanette, McLaughlin, Denise, Suchman, Lucy A. (1993): Work-Oriented Design at Xerox. In Communications of the ACM, 36 (6) pp. 91.

Pedersen, Elin Ronby, Suchman, Lucy A. (1991): Panel: Rethinking the role of formalization in CSCW. In: Bannon, Liam, Robinson, Mike, Schmidt, Kjeld (eds.) ECSCW 91 - Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work September 24-27, 1991, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Johnson, Jeff, Ehn, Pelle, Grudin, Jonathan, Nardi, Bonnie A., Thoresen, Kari, Suchman, Lucy A. (1990): Participatory Design of Computer Systems. In: Carrasco, Jane, Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference , 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 141-144.

Mackay, Wendy E., Guindon, Raymonde, Mantei, Marilyn, Suchman, Lucy A., Tatar, Deborah G. (1988): Video: Data for Studying Human-Computer Interaction. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 133-137.

Mantei, Marilyn, Suchman, Lucy A., DeSanctis, Gerardine, Applegate, Lynda, Jarvenpaa, Sirkka (1988): Groupware: Interface Design for Meetings. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 161-163.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1988): Designing with the User. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 6 (2) pp. 173-183.

Suchman, Lucy A., Beeman, William, Pear, Michael, Trigg, Randall H., Fox, Barbara, Smolensky, Paul (1987): Social science and system design: Interdisciplinary collaborations. In: Graphics Interface 87 (CHI+GI 87) April 5-9, 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 121-123.

Stefik, Mark, Foster, Gregg, Bobrow, Daniel G., Kahn, Kenneth M., Lanning, Stan, Suchman, Lucy A. (1987): Beyond the Chalkboard: Computer Support for Collaboration and Problem Solving in Meetings. In Communications of the ACM, 30 (1) pp. 32-47.

Suchman, Lucy A., Traweek, Sharon, Lynch, Michael, Frankel, Richard, Jordan, Brigitte (1985): Technology in Use. In: Borman, Lorraine, Curtis, Bill (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 85 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco, California. pp. 89-91.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1983): Office Procedure as Practical Action: Models of Work and System Design. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 1 (4) pp. 320-328.

Suchman, Lucy A. (1983): Office Procedures as a practical activity: Models of work and system design. In Transactions on office Automation Systems, 1 (4) pp. 320-328. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=357445

Suchman, Lucy A. (2001). Human/Machine Reconsidered. Retrieved 2003-09-05 00:00:00 from Department of Sociology, Lancaster University: https://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc040ls.html

Suchman, Lucy A. (2001): Practice-Based Design. In: 5th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering RE 2001 27-31 August, 2001, Toronto, Canada. pp. 11. https://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/re/2001/1125/00/11250011abs.htm

Suchman, Lucy A. (1994): Representations of Work: Introduction. In: HICSS 1994 , 1994, . pp. 818-819.

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