Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is
also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and …

Appropriation is the process by which peopleadopt and adapt technologies, fitting them
intotheir working practices. It is similar tocustomisation, but concerns the adoptionpatterns of …

As hard as it may be for modern computer users to believe in this era of smartphones,
tablets, and touchscreens, early computers were not interactive. They were used to read files …

In this article we focus attention on ethnography's place in CSCW by reflecting on how
ethnography in the context of CSCW has contributed to our understanding of the sociality …

In recent years, academic and professional researchers and designers working in the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have looked to ethnography to provide a perspective on …

Ethnography as a resource for design has been a topic of debate within Participatory Design
since the late 1980s when a group of anthropologically trained social scientists began …

Document properties are a compelling infrastructure on which to develop document
management applications. A property-based approach avoids many of the problems of …

We explored general issues concerning personal information management by investigating
the characteristics of office workers' paper-based information, in an industrial research …

Data are a fundamental component of science and engineering work, and the ability to
share data is critical to the validation and progress of science. Data sharing and reuse in …

This article explores relationships between activity theoretic and ethnomethodological
studies of work and its objects, with specific reference to the case of design practices in civil …