Representing community: Knowing users in the face of changing constituencies

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-116

  Ribes, David ^a   Finholt, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Cyberinfrastructure; eScience; Ethnography; Infrastructure; Science; Studies of user centered design and requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DIVERSE COMMUNITY; E-SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCHES; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; REQUIREMENTS GATHERING; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; USER CENTERED DESIGNS; WATER ENVIRONMENTS;

GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 77950816848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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