Using double helix relationships to understand and change informing systems

Informing Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 21-62

  Nissen, Hans Erik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognition versus recognition; Double helix metaphor; Hermeneutics dialectics; Information systems design; Information systems use; Informing science; Language; Languaging; Logical empiricism; Metascience; Model transparency engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349014678     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/461     Document Type: Article

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