Fieldwork for Design Theory and Practice /

• Main Authors: Randall, Dave (Author), Harper, Richard (Author), Rouncefield, Mark (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a history of ethnography, both as it was practiced before computer science picked it up and since, most especially in the CSCW a...