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Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Published in Proceedings | Yes |
Title | Creating, Reinterpreting, Combining, Cuing – Paper Practices on the Shopfloor |
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Presentation Type | paper |
Item Subtype | Original Work |
Refereed | Yes |
Status | Published in final form |
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Event Title | ACM Group 2018 |
Event Type | conference |
Event Location | Sanibel Island |
Event Start Date | January 7 - 2018 |
Event End Date | January 10 - 2018 |
Place of Publication | Sanibel Island |
Abstract Text | Despite the advent of a flurry of digital technologies, paper prevails on manufacturing shopfloors. To understand the roles and value of paper on the shopfloor, we have studied the manufacturing practices at two state-of-the-art automotive supplier facilities, applying ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, as well as photo and document analysis. We find that paper has unique affordances that today’s digital technologies cannot easily supplant on current shopfloors. More specifically, we find four paper practices: (1) creating and adapting individual information spaces, (2) reinterpreting information, (3) combining information handover with social interaction, and (4) visual cuing. We discuss these practices and the unique affordances of paper that currently support shopfloor workers and also consider the limitations of paper, which are becoming increasingly apparent, since more tasks increasingly depend on real-time information. |
Digital Object Identifier | 10.1145/3148330.3148341 |
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