Design in the absence of practice: breaching experiments Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:131322, abstract = {IT research is often informed by studies of the practices that new technologies are to be embedded in and which they transform in their use. The development of mixed reality, tangible, ambient, ubiquitous, mobile, and wearable computing have seen the emergence of a range of technological innovations that have little or no grounding in current practices, however. Such developments create new practices where none existed before and the challenge for multi-disciplinary research is to adapt to this situation. This paper articulates a novel methodology that treats technological innovations as 'breaching experiments', whose situated use beyond the confines of the research lab may be studied ethnographically to support innovation.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Crabtree, Andy}, booktitle = {DIS '04: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems}, citeulike-article-id = {131322}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1013125}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1013115.1013125}, comment = {T research is often informed by studies of the practices that new technologies are to be embedded in and which they transform in their use. The development of mixed reality, tangible, ambient, ubiquitous, mobile, and wearable computing have seen the emergence of a range of technological innovations that have little or no grounding in current practices, however. Such developments create new practices where none existed before and the challenge for multi-disciplinary research is to adapt to this situation. This paper articulates a novel methodology that treats technological innovations as 'breaching experiments', whose situated use beyond the confines of the research lab may be studied ethnographically to support innovation.}, doi = {10.1145/1013115.1013125}, isbn = {1-58113-787-7}, keywords = {design, ethnography, ethnomethodology, hci, methodology}, location = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, pages = {59--68}, posted-at = {2006-03-24 18:07:04}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Design in the absence of practice: breaching experiments}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1013115.1013125}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:131322 L3 - citeulike-article-id:131322 N2 - IT research is often informed by studies of the practices that new technologies are to be embedded in and which they transform in their use. The development of mixed reality, tangible, ambient, ubiquitous, mobile, and wearable computing have seen the emergence of a range of technological innovations that have little or no grounding in current practices, however. Such developments create new practices where none existed before and the challenge for multi-disciplinary research is to adapt to this situation. This paper articulates a novel methodology that treats technological innovations as 'breaching experiments', whose situated use beyond the confines of the research lab may be studied ethnographically to support innovation. CY - Cambridge, MA, USA SN - 1-58113-787-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 68 TI - Design in the absence of practice: breaching experiments PB - ACM T2 - DIS '04: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems SP - 59 KW - design KW - ethnography KW - ethnomethodology KW - hci KW - methodology N1 - T research is often informed by studies of the practices that new technologies are to be embedded in and which they transform in their use. The development of mixed reality, tangible, ambient, ubiquitous, mobile, and wearable computing have seen the emergence of a range of technological innovations that have little or no grounding in current practices, however. Such developments create new practices where none existed before and the challenge for multi-disciplinary research is to adapt to this situation. This paper articulates a novel methodology that treats technological innovations as 'breaching experiments', whose situated use beyond the confines of the research lab may be studied ethnographically to support innovation. AU - Crabtree, Andy PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1013115.1013125 ER -