Moving out from the control room: Ethnography in system design

Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 429-439

  Hughes, John ^a   King, Val ^a   Rodden, Tom ^a   Andersen, Hans ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design methods; Ethnographic study; Studies of work; Systems design and development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CSCW SYSTEMS; DESIGN METHOD; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; STUDIES OF WORK; SYSTEMS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; WORK DOMAINS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84991922916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192844.193065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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