Title Deconstructing ethnography : towards a social methodology for ubiquitous computing and interactive systems design / Graham Button, Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie

Published Cham : Springer, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) Series Human-computer interaction series Human-computer interaction series. 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 Summary 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 apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived in and understood by ordinary members, whose common-sense understandings shape the actual milieu into which systems are placed and used. In Deconstructing Ethnography the authors show how 'new' calls are returning systems design to 'old' and problematic ways of understanding the social. They argue that systems design can be appropriately grounded in the social through the ordinary methods that members use to order their actions and interactions. This work is written for post-graduate students and researchers alike, as well as design practitioners who have an interest in bringing the social to bear on design in a systematic rather than a piecemeal way. This is not a 'how to' book, but instead elaborates the foundations upon which the social can be systematically built into the design of ubiquitous and interactive systems Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 20, 2015) Subject Ubiquitous computing. Context-aware computing. Human-computer interaction. Social research & statistics. Society & social sciences. User interface design & usability. COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy. COMPUTERS -- Computer Science. COMPUTERS -- Data Processing. COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General. COMPUTERS -- Information Technology. COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory. COMPUTERS -- Reference. Context-aware computing Human-computer interaction Ubiquitous computing Form Electronic book Author Crabtree, Andy, author. Rouncefield, Mark, author. Tolmie, Peter, author. ISBN 9783319219547 3319219545 9783319219554 3319219553 9783319373652 331937365X

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