The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026269283X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Financial Times)The case for paper is made most eloquently in The Myth of the Paperless Office (Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker) . If you wish to read anything at all on office management, read this book. (Guardian UK)The authors approach their subject with academic rigour, observing real organisations to find out how people like to work
"Paper is Still Useful in the Paper-Less Office" according to J. Michael Casey. I bought this book from Amazon in 2005, and would recommend it to anyone with a professional or personal interest in the ways people use paper and other types of information display surfaces. It continues to provide a valuable perspective on the uses of paper in the workplace and personal life. I especially appreciate the authors' approach t. A terrific analysis of the opportunities and limitations associated with paperless initiatives and business processes. This bold and insightful analysis by two Microsoft employees into the psychological and practical reasons why certain business processes continue to rely on paper remains relevant even a decade after its publication. The book is especially helpful for records and information governance consultants more intent on providing their clients with . Interesting but outdated Robert Dubose What a difference 8 years makes.In 2002 it looked as though the authors were correct: the paperless office had been a myth. Technology had increased paper usage rather than decreased it. Many office workers still preferred to read and work on paper rather than screens.But about the time this book was published, the "myth" started to become t
The physical properties of paper (its being thin, light, porous, opaque, and flexible) afford the human actions of grasping, carrying, folding, writing, and so on. In The Myth of the Paperless Office, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper use the study of paper as a way to understand the work that people do and the reasons they do it the way they do. Using the tools of ethnography and cognitive psychology, they look at paper use from the level of the individual up to that of organizational culture.Central to Sellen and Harper's investigation is the concept of "affordances" -- the activities that an object allows, or affords. Rather than pursue the ideal of the paperless office, we should work toward a future in which paper and electronic document tools work in concert and organizational processes make optimal use of both.. They can then ask what kinds of devices or systems would make new kinds of activities possible or better support current activities. The concept of affordance allows them to compare the affordances of paper with those of existing digital devices. The use of e-mail in an organization causes an average 40 percent increase in paper consumption. The authors argue that paper will continue to play an important role in office life. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almos
Sellen is a cognitive psychologist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, UK.. Abigail J