On 'technomethodology': foundational relationships between ethnomethodology and system design

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-432

  Dourish, Paul ^a   Button, Graham ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Xerox Research Centre Europe   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; FOUNDATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; TECHNOMETHODOLOGY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0032284173     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci1304_2     Document Type: Article

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