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Moving out from the control room: ethnography in system design
TLDR
A number of ways in which ethnography has been used to inform design are identified and the benefits and problems of each are considered.
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Domestic Routines and Design for the Home
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This paper seeks to inform the development of computing for the home environment by unpacking the notion of domestic routines as co- ordinational features of domestic life, focusing in particular on the routine nature of com- munication.
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Exploiting space and location as a design framework for interactive mobile systems
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A design framework consisting of taxonomies of location, mobility, population, and device awareness is described consisting of a semantic model of space for mobile systems that allows contextual information to be shared across a number of mobile devices.
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Populating the application: a model of awareness for cooperative applications
  • T. Rodden
  • Computer Science, Economics
    CSCW '96
  • 16 November 1996
TLDR
The model developed in this paper takes as its starting point a previous spatial model of interaction and exploits the partitioning of space inherent within the spatial model to allow its application to non-spatial applications.
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From interaction to trajectories: designing coherent journeys through user experiences
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A conceptual framework in which trajectories explain complex user experiences as journeys through hybrid structures, punctuated by transitions, and in which interactivity and collaboration are orchestrated is developed.
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Dynamo: a public interactive surface supporting the cooperative sharing and exchange of media
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Dynamo, a communal multi-user interactive surface that supports the cooperative sharing and exchange of a wide range of media that can be brought to the surface by users that are remote from their familiar organizational settings is designed and implemented.
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Reflecting human values in the digital age
HCI experts must broaden the field's scope and adopt new methods to be useful in 21st-century sociotechnical environments.
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Ethnographically-informed systems design for air traffic control
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The ethnographic work undertaken studying air traffic control as a cooperative activity is discussed, some of the difficulties in collaboration between software developers and sociologists are described and how ethnographic studies have influenced the systems design process is described.
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Designing with Care: Adapting Cultural Probes to Inform Design in Sensitive Settings
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The experiences of adapting Cultural Probes to explore care settings, to develop a design dialogue with participants, and to gather information about their unique needs are reported on.
Collaborative virtual environments
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The ever-expanding vari-ety of multiplayer games andsimulators demonstrates the poten-tial of CVEs in leisure and entertain-ment, the most notable examples being games such as Doom and Quake.
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