Contributors will reflect on their actual, concrete research practices within the context of organized methodological studies and with a broad, interdisciplinary audience in mind. Papers will have been distributed by electronic mail, and explicitly address issues of data collection and analysis. The workshop will be organized into four thematic sessions and computer applications exhibitions. Science studies researchers often find themselves at some disadvantage in their relationships with scientists, doctors, engineers, and others. Integrating Sources Studies of medicine, technology and science now standardly integrate multiple sources of data.
Many studies use a variety of documents and literature, interviews, and observation.
What are important pitfalls of documents and literature, interviews, and observation. We are interested in demonstrations which make well-supported methodological arguments for the usefulness of specific approaches or applications. All paper submissions must be made by electronic mail. Paragraphs should be made with double carriage returns. A call for registration of participants will be made in late April 1996.