This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed
the" great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social …

Over the last few years, ethnogmphy has been proposed as new approach to “requirements
elicitation” in interactive systems development. The turn to ethnogtaphy is a response to the …

We explore the approach of performance-led research in the wild in which artists drive the
creation of novel performances with the support of HCI researchers that are then deployed …

Abstract Mathematics and science knowledge/skills are most commonly associated with
engineering's pre-requisite knowledge. Our goals in this paper are to argue for a more …

Support for work practice is better conceptualised as support for activity taking place in a
multidimensional space than as prescription of temporal task sequences. The notion of …

This paper documents some details and some examples of the influence of
ethnomethodological work in the fieldwork tradition associated with European CSCW; in …

The introduction of IT has changed the way we live in many ways. Historically, it can even be
argued that socially embedded applications of information technology challenge and …

This paper reports on a field study of the procurement, implementation and use of a local
area network devoted to running CSCW-related applications in an organization within the …

We discuss our study that looks at family members as everyday designers. We explain the
design actions of family members to be creative, as evidenced by the resourceful …

In recent years, there has been growing interest in qualitative research methods and their
application to information systems. This paper discusses the nature and applicability of one …