Ethnography has gained wide acceptance in the industrial design profession and curriculum
as a means of understanding the user. However, there is considerable confusion about the …

While ethnographic research has gained wide acceptance in the Industrial Design (ID)
profession, its inclusion in design education is problematic. The main reasons are the lack of …

This chapter may be read as both an introduction to and summary of our account of design
ethnography. By turns we outline the 'turn to the social', which occasioned ethnography's …

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the role of ethnography in design. Whilst
I believe that the contribution of ethnography to design has yet to be fully explored and …

This chapter is as an attempt to document the values and pitfalls of applying the
ethnographic technique to the formative stages of design. Based upon research conducted …

The methods of ethnography and cognitive psychology are frequently set in opposition to
each other. Whilst such a view may be appropriate in defining pure, or prototypical, classes …

Despite the growing number of ethnographic studies of work their use in design remains a
matter of some debate. Acknowledging the problems designers face in utiiising …

Ethnography is a widely used term in contemporary design circles though is not often
recognized that this term glosses a host of different analytic perspectives on social …

Ethnography is now a fundamental feature of design practice, taught in universities
worldwide and practiced widely in commerce. Despite its rise to prominence a great many …

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