Deconstructing Ethnography Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design /

• Main Authors: Button, Graham (Author), Crabtree, Andy (Author), Rouncefield, Mark (Author), Tolmie, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Human–Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Building the Social into System Design
• Ethnography as Cultural Theory
• ‘New’ Ethnography and Ubiquitous Computing
• Interpretation, Reflexivity and Objectivity
• The Missing What of Ethnographic Studies
• Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Design
• Members’ Not Ethnographers’ Methods.