Search for dissertations about: "Design informed by ethnography"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Design informed by ethnography.
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1. Participatory inquiry : Collaborative Design
Abstract : This dissertation focuses on design sessions in which users and stakeholders participate. It demonstrates how material from field studies can be used in exploratory design sessions. The emphasis is on the staging and realization of experiments with ‘possible futures’. READ MORE
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2. A Socio-Material Study of User Involvement : Interrogating the practices of technology development for older people in a digitalised world
Abstract : Population ageing and increased digitalization each constitute an ongoing and profound transformation within contemporary modes of living, as growing advances in technological development mix and intermingle with the lived realities of older people as the final recipients. It is against the backdrop of this interplay that user involvement has enjoyed ever-rising advocacy to an almost normative degree. READ MORE
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3. Designing for Local Mobility
Abstract : This thesis investigates the characteristics of local mobility from a CSCW perspective using ethnographically informed workplace studies and presents a framework for designing IT support. In this thesis local mobility is defined as a work related situation where workers move within a specified physical area while performing their tasks. READ MORE
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4. Mobile Knowledge
Abstract : Both the issues of "knowledge management" and "mobility" have received much attention recently. The interest in these issues is often motivated by the fact that work, in many organisations, has become "knowledge intensive" and "mobile". However, so far these issues have been explored separately. READ MORE
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5. Islands of Togetherness : Rewriting Context Analysis
Abstract : A continuing debate within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is how to elucidate, improve, and optimize the relationship between social context and technology use. Social context is conventionally understood as immediate use context while an understanding informed by social science suggests a wider scope, involving actors and structures. READ MORE