Notes towards an ethnography of domestic technology

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 276-281

  Blythe, Mark ^a   Monk, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enjoyability; Ethnography; Gender; Technology; Usability

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGY; ENJOYABILITY; ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY;

PRIVATIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 21644482219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/778712.778750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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