Figure 4Distinguishing between tools. When researchers and others talk about the need for new tools (e.g. a hammer) they usually fail to recognise that the situation of concern, and thus what they desire, is a relational dynamic between people (a hammerer), a tool, a practice (hammering) and a situation (frustration with a computer). The dynamic also produces something we can describe as a result or an effect, i.e. something is hammered!

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This cartoon shows a man (labelled as ‘hammerer’) holding a hammer (which is labelled as such). He is holding it above his head. In front of him is a desk with a computer labelled ‘hammered’.

Back to - Figure 4Distinguishing between tools. When researchers and others talk about the need for new tools (e.g. a hammer) they usually fail to recognise that the situation of concern, and thus what they desire, is a relational dynamic between people (a hammerer), a tool, a practice (hammering) and a situation (frustration with a computer). The dynamic also produces something we can describe as a result or an effect, i.e. something is hammered!