Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the
design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a …

Este minicurso abordará métodos de pesquisa científica apropriados para a Ciência da
Computação. Abordaremos vários aspectos de métodos quantitativos e qualitativos. Estes …

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 this paper, we present our experience in sharing ethnographic material with engineers
that have a very different perception of technology and the role of its users. Rather than …

This paper describes a model that defines the attributes of domestic systems that lead to
system dependability and a user-oriented specification method for support systems based …

This article introduces a formal methodology for deriving conceptual knowledge schema for
today's academic libraries. This knowledge schema is defined in the form of a set of …

This chapter aims to introduce User-Centred Design and its basic concepts associated with
online learning communities. Another aim is to search for guidelines to ensure Quality in …

Cognitive engineering has produced a variety of methods for a variety of uses. This chapter
provides a survey of the methods and uses, in order to help us and others apply cognitive …

The work described here is an attempt to improve an electronic stripping for terminal sectors,
VertiDigi, in order to design a version dedicated to the Planning Controller (PC). A brief …

Sometime in the 1970s a split between users and designers of information technology was
born (Grudin 1991). Until then the designers–scientists and engineers working in research …