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Everything about Undo
Computer command
Undo is an interaction technique which is implemented in many computer programs. It erases the last change done to the document, reverting it to an older state. In some more advanced programs, such as graphic processing, undo will negate the last command done to the file being edited. With the possibility of undo, users can explore and work without fear of making mistakes, because they can easily be undone. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: UndoA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: How to Undo (and Redo) Words with Facts: A Semio-enactivist Approach to Law, Space and ExperienceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Ikon no hōkai madeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation?Cited 617 times
- Go sideways: Command patternA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Memento patternA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb To reverse the effects of an action.
Verb To unfasten.
Verb To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
Verb To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation?
When Policies Undo Themselves: Self‐Undermining Feedback as a Source of Policy Change
How Women Engineers Do and Undo Gender: Consequences for Gender Equality
To mitigate, resist, or undo: addressing structural influences on the health of urban populations
Using Gender to Undo Gender
Does occasional tillage undo the ecosystem services gained with no-till? A review
Do option markets undo restrictions on short sales? Evidence from the 2008 short-sale ban
FACTS AND ARTIFACTS IN USING ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE TO “UNDO” THE LAW OF INITIAL VALUES
🆕 Influential since 2022
How to Undo (and Redo) Words with Facts: A Semio-enactivist Approach to Law, Space and Experience
You never get a chance to undo a negative first impression: Social anxiety is associated with impaired positive updating of social information
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting
Can social marketing undo the COVID-19 infodemic? Predicting consumer preventive health behavior in the marginalized communities in Zimbabwe
Academia’s culture of overwork almost broke me, so I’m working to undo it
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Ikon no hōkai madeTsutomu Suda · 2008
- 📕Bunka undō nenpyōUranishi, Kazuhiko · 2015
- 📕Sengo shakai undō shironTadahide Hirokawa, Yamada, Takao · 2006
Midori no mō hitotsu no michiBrian Tokar, Yūichi Inoue · 1992- 📕コミュニティ・オーガナイジング鎌田華乃子 · 2020
Undo shinkei no kagakuKando Kobayashi · 2004- 📕Yokohama machizukuri shimin katsudō no rekishi to genjōKatsuhiko Murahashi · 2009
- 📕プロスポーツ選手の法的地位川井圭司 · 2003
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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