Informing the design of an information management system with iterative fieldwork Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:180935, abstract = {We report on the design process of a personal information management system, Raton Laveur, and how it was influenced by an intimate relationship between iterative fieldwork and design thinking. Initially, the system was conceived as a paper-based UI to calendar, contacts, to-dos and notes. As the fieldwork progressed, our understanding of peoples practices and the constraints of their office infrastructures radically shifted our design goals away from paper-based interaction to embedded interaction with our system. By this we mean embedding information management functionality in an existing application such as email.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bellotti, Victoria and Smith, Ian}, booktitle = {DIS '00: Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems}, citeulike-article-id = {180935}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=347642.347728}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/347642.347728}, doi = {10.1145/347642.347728}, isbn = {1581132190}, keywords = {design, fieldwork, information\_systems, pim}, pages = {227--237}, posted-at = {2009-03-18 13:15:35}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Informing the design of an information management system with iterative fieldwork}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/347642.347728}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:180935 L3 - citeulike-article-id:180935 N2 - We report on the design process of a personal information management system, Raton Laveur, and how it was influenced by an intimate relationship between iterative fieldwork and design thinking. Initially, the system was conceived as a paper-based UI to calendar, contacts, to-dos and notes. As the fieldwork progressed, our understanding of peoples practices and the constraints of their office infrastructures radically shifted our design goals away from paper-based interaction to embedded interaction with our system. By this we mean embedding information management functionality in an existing application such as email. SN - 1581132190 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 237 TI - Informing the design of an information management system with iterative fieldwork PB - ACM Press T2 - DIS '00: Proceedings of the conference on Designing interactive systems SP - 227 KW - design KW - fieldwork KW - information_systems KW - pim AU - Bellotti, Victoria AU - Smith, Ian PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/347642.347728 ER -