Technology trouble? Talk to us findings from an ethnographic field study

PDC 2004 - Proceedings of the Eight Participatory Design Conference 2004 - Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 224-234

  Balka, Ellen ^a   Kahnamoui, Nicki ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actor networks; Ethnography; Intervention; Meso level analysis; Organizational problem solving; Participant interventionist; Technology implementation

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORKS; ETHNOGRAPHY; INTERVENTION; MESO LEVEL ANALYSIS; PARTICIPANT INTERVENTION; TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION;

DESIGN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 27644454232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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