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1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
From description to requirements: an activity theoretic perspective
This paper demonstrates how activity theoretic concepts can be used in conjunction with an ethnographically informed approach to derive requirements on a work situation. We presen...
Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Julie Horton
ECSCW
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The Awareness Network: To Whom Should I Display My Actions? And, Whose Actions Should I Monitor?
The concept of awareness has come to play a central role in CSCW research. The coordinative practices of displaying and monitoring have received attention and have led to different...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles
MHCI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring the use of landmarks for mobile navigation support in natural environments
Landmarks are a key element in navigation and have been used extensively to provide navigation support to pedestrians through mobile devices in urban areas. Natural environments d...
Caroline Snowdon, Christian Kray
HUC
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Living for the Global City: Mobile Kits, Urban Interfaces, and Ubicomp
Using ethnographic methods, 28 young professionals across the global cities of London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo were studied to understand in some detail what items they carried with...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Ken Anderson, Michele F. Chan...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Why the plan doesn't hold: a study of situated planning, articulation and coordination work in a surgical ward
Most studies of plans and situated work have applied ethnographic methods and and thus fail to provide any quantitative insight into the extent of this phenomenon. We present a st...
Jakob E. Bardram, Thomas Riisgaard Hansen