Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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Physical Artifacts for Promoting Bilingual Collaborative Design

Physical Artifacts for Promoting Bilingual Collaborative Design

Physical artifacts, such as sticky notes and mock-ups, are widely used in Human-Computer Interaction research for supporting the collaborative design of technology. Because these representations use channels of communication other than speaking and listening, they offer the potential to facilitate...

Craft, Value, and The Fetishism of Method

Craft, Value, and The Fetishism of Method

In order to set the scene for the panel on methods, I will be drawing on C Wright Mills’ injunction to avoid the fetishism of method. Mills urges us to think about our methods in terms of a process of craft production. I want to explore what key elements of this craft might be, beyond the usual...