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Engaging with practices: design case studies as a research framework in CSCW

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Volkmar Pipek, and

Gunnar StevensAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '11: Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work

March 2011

Pages 505 - 512

https://doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958902

Published: 19 March 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades most aspects of our lives and changes everyday's practices in work and leisure time. When designing innovative ICTs, we need to engage with given practices, institutional arrangements, and technological infrastructures. We describe the research framework used at the University of Siegen. It is based on a collection of design case studies in particular fields of practice and identifies cross-cutting issues to compare and aggregate insights between these cases. To illustrate this framework, we describe our research activities and discuss three themes which became important in different design case studies.

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Engaging with practices: design case studies as a research framework in CSCW
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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