Studies of work and the workplace in HCI: concepts and techniques

This book has two purposes. First, to introduce the study of work and the workplace as a method for informing the design of computer systems to be used at work. We primarily focus on the predominant way in which the organization of work has been approached within the field of human-computer interact...

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Main Author: Button, Graham 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Rafael, Calif.] Morgan & Claypool Publishers © 2009
Series:Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics #2 [3]
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Online Access:UBW01
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Summary:This book has two purposes. First, to introduce the study of work and the workplace as a method for informing the design of computer systems to be used at work. We primarily focus on the predominant way in which the organization of work has been approached within the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), which is from the perspective of ethnomethodology. We locate studies of work in HCI within its intellectual antecedents, and describe paradigmatic examples and case studies. Second, we hope to provide those who are intending to conduct the type of fieldwork that studies of work and the workplace draw off with suggestions as to how they can go about their own work of developing observations about the settings they encounter. These suggestions take the form of a set of maxims that we have found useful while conducting the studies we have been involved in. We draw from our own fieldwork notes in order to illustrate these maxims. In addition we also offer some homilies about how to make observations; again, these are ones we have found useful in our own work
Item Description:Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 21, 2009)
Issued as #2 of Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics in error
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 95 Seiten) illustrations, digital, PDF files
ISBN:9781598299885
1598299883
9781598299878
1598299875
DOI:10.2200/S00177ED1V01Y200903HCI003

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