The limits of ethnography: Combining social sciences for CSCW

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

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 417-428

  Shapiro, Dan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive science; CSCW; Distributed cognition; Ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Interdisciplinary relations; Participative design

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CSCW; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; ETHNOGRAPHY; ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS; PARTICIPATIVE DESIGNS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 85030315413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192844.193064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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