The 'adequate' design of ethnographic outputs for practice: Some explorations of the characteristics of design resources

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 147-158

  Diggins, Tim ^a   Tolmie, Peter ^b  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

Design resources; Ethnography; Representational devices; Work practice

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; HARDWARE;

BEST PRACTICES; DESIGN PRACTICE; DESIGN RESOURCES; ETHNOGRAPHY; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS; REPRESENTATIONAL DEVICES; USER CENTRED DESIGN; WORK PRACTICES;

DESIGN;

EID: 33746653734     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-003-0226-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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