Abstract
Whenever a researcher starts an empirical project, he or she usually looks first at which previous work has been done on the subject. In the case of technologies like CAD/CAM, this is all the more important since technologies have certain properties which may not be visible at first glance, particularly to researchers from non-technical fields such as the social sciences. Otherwise there might be a tendency to assume that one computer-based technology is much like the other and that any effects one technology may have will also be produced by applying another similarly based technology.
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Rader, M. (1988). Editor’s Introduction: A Personal History of the European CAD/CAM Social Studies Network. In: Rader, M., Wingert, B., Riehm, U. (eds) Social Science Research on CAD/CAM. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52380-9_1
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