technographern.
/tɛkˈnɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /tɛkˈnɑɡrəfər/ 1. A student of technography; a person who studies the techniques of an art or technology. Cf. technography n. 1. rare.
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society > occupation and work > worker > people who study work or technology > [noun]
technologist1815
technographer1900
human engineer1916
job analyst1917
methods engineer1939
systems engineer1940
cyberneticist1949
cybernetician1950
human factors engineer1959
nanotechnologist1986
1900 Amer. Anthropologist 2 164 The technographer pursues a single art over time and place until he knows it thoroughly.
2. A person whose role is to use information technology to focus and facilitate the running of a meeting, by taking notes which appear on a display which is visible to the participants, for immediate and ongoing discussion. Cf. technography n. 2.
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1986 Business Software Rev. Dec. 10 A business meeting is conducted and a specially-trained secretary (newly- titled ‘technographer’) enters the input of participants into a PC. That input is immediately projected onto a wall or screen.
1990 Training & Devel. Jrnl. (Nexis) Feb. 18 A ‘technographer’ then records ideas, using text-outlining programs available for both IBM-compatibles and Apple Macintosh computers.
2007 J. LoCicero Streetwise Business Communication xx. 293 During certain meetings at toymaker Mattel,..a technographer records everyone's ideas, entering them into a laptop, with entries either projected onto a wall or on a 35-inch color monitor for all to see.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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