Implications for design

by: Paul Dourish

(2006), pp. 541-550.

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Abstract

Although ethnography has become a common approach in HCI research and design, considerable confusion still attends both ethnographic practice and the criteria by which it should be evaluated in HCI. Often, ethnography is seen as an approach to field investigation that can generate requirements for systems development; by that token, the major evaluative criterion for an ethnographic study is the implications it can provide for design. Exploring the nature of ethnographic inquiry, this paper suggests that "implications for design" may not be the best metric for evaluation and may, indeed, fail to capture the value of ethnographic investigations.

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TY - CONF ID - citeulike:612102 L3 - citeulike-article-id:612102 TI - Implications for design T2 - CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems SP - 541 EP - 550 AD - New York, NY, USA PB - ACM Press SN - 1595933727 N2 - Although ethnography has become a common approach in HCI research and design, considerable confusion still attends both ethnographic practice and the criteria by which it should be evaluated in HCI. Often, ethnography is seen as an approach to field investigation that can generate requirements for systems development; by that token, the major evaluative criterion for an ethnographic study is the implications it can provide for design. Exploring the nature of ethnographic inquiry, this paper suggests that "implications for design" may not be the best metric for evaluation and may, indeed, fail to capture the value of ethnographic investigations. KW - design KW - ethnography KW - hdm-acid-net-au KW - method KW - theory AU - Dourish, Paul PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124855 ER -

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