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Deconstructing Ethnography Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design /

This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological...

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Main Authors: Button, Graham. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Crabtree, Andy. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rouncefield, Mark. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tolmie, Peter. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Human–Computer Interaction Series,
Subjects:
User interfaces (Computer systems).
Social sciences.
Application software.
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21954-7
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Building the Social into System Design
  • Ethnography as Cultural Theory
  • ‘New’ Ethnography and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Interpretation, Reflexivity and Objectivity
  • The Missing What of Ethnographic Studies
  • Ethnography, Ethnomethodology and Design
  • Members’ Not Ethnographers’ Methods.

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