Fieldwork for Design Theory and Practice /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Randall, Dave (Συγγραφέας), Harper, Richard (Συγγραφέας), Rouncefield, Mark (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Σειρά: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Ethnography, Fieldwork, and Design: Preliminary Remarks
• Ethnography, Fieldwork, and Design: Preliminary Remarks
• Theoretical and Analytic Issues
• The State of Play
• Some Perspectives
• Activity Theory, Distributed Cognition, and Actor-Network Theory
• Methods for Social Investigation: Practical Issues
• Ethnography and Its Role in the Design Process - “If You Must Work Together'
• Ethnography and How to Do It
• Analytic Issues: What Have We Got?
• Common sense and Context
• Organisations and Work
• Into the Home
• Conclusion: Not the Last Word.