Minneapolis, 2005 (PDF) - Society for the History of Technology

17. Touch and Control: Human-Machine Interfaces as Co(a)gents in 20 th -Century
Consumption Technologies - abstract
Room: Nicollet D3
Organizers: Heike Weber, Technical University Munich, Germany, Martina Heßler,
RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Gwen Bingle, Technical University Munich, Germany
Chair: Ulrich Wengenroth, Technical University Munich, Germany
Comment: Edward Tenner, Lemelson Center, NMAH, USA
Heike Weber, Technical University Munich, Germany, "At Your Fingertip! - Buttons and
Operating Controls from the Mechanical to the Digital Ages" - abstract
Stefan Schmitt, Technical University Munich/ ZEITWissen Hamburg, Germany, "A
Genesis of (alternative) User Interfaces in Video Gaming Controllers" (Robinson Prize
Candidate) - abstract
18. Intellectual Cultures and the Meaning of Technology - abstract
Room: Nicollet BC
Organizers: Matthew Wisnioski, Washington University, USA and Adelheid Voskuhl,
Cornell University, USA
Chair: Amy Slaton, Drexel University, USA
Comment: Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Adelheid Voskuhl, Cornell University, USA, "Technology and Decline: Ideas on a
Philosophy of Technology in the Conservative Revolution of the Weimar Republic" -
abstract
Matthew Wisnioski, Washington University, USA "'Keeping Pace' in 1960s America:
Value and Agency in the Intellectual Crisis of Technology" - abstract
Rayvon Fouché, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, “Black Intellectuals and the
Technological Politics of African Decolonization”
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
19. Politics of Beverage Production: Milk, Beer, Rum
Room: Nicollet D2
Chair: Richard Rosenbloom, Harvard Business School, USA
Comment: Michael Kucher, University of Washington, USA