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Wybo Houkes

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Publications

19

Citations

982

H-Index

15

Active since

2002

Affiliations

Eindhoven University of Technology(Current)

Delft University of Technology

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Wybo Houkes is an author at Eindhoven University of Technology specializing in design, social sciences, and material culture.

Top concepts

DesignSocial SciencesEngineeringDesign ThinkingMaterial CultureArchitectural DesignEducationTechnologyCultural HeritageHuman-computer Interaction

Publications per year

2002–2022

19

Publications

19

Technical functions: a drawbridge between the intentional and structural natures of technical artefacts

Pieter E. Vermaas, Wybo Houkes · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A · 2006 · 126 citations

Architectural Design, Industrial Design, Structural Natures +15

A Philosophy of Technology: From Technical Artefacts to Sociotechnical Systems

Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Ibo van de Poel et al. · Synthesis lectures on engineers, technology, and society · 2011 · 120 citations · Full text

Actions Versus Functions

Wybo Houkes, Pieter E. Vermaas · The Monist · 2004 · 115 citations

Cognition, Motor Control, Action (Philosophy) +18

Ascribing Functions to Technical Artefacts: A Challenge to Etiological Accounts of Functions

Pieter E. Vermaas, Wybo Houkes · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 2003 · 107 citations

Experimental Evolution, Natural Function, Technical Domain +19

Design and use as plans: an action-theoretical account

Wybo Houkes, Pieter E. Vermaas, Kees Dorst et al. · Design Studies · 2002 · 93 citations

Architectural Design, Integrated Design, Project Management +7

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