"It's Just a Matter of Common Sense": Ethnography as Invisible Work

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 127-145

  Forsythe, Diana E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Computers and medicine; Ethnography; Evaluation; Medical informatics; Qualitative methods; User studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ETHNOGRAPHY; INVISIBLE WORKS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0032647656     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008692231284     Document Type: Article

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