Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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Who We Talk about When We Talk about Users

Who We Talk about When We Talk about Users

I begin with some questions: how have the theories and methods which subtend design research been changed by their migration from academy to industry? How have they adapted to their new commercial culture? What languages and customs have they had to acquire to fit in? To address these questions, I...

Walking the Interface: Uncovering Practices through ‘Proxy Technology Assessment’

Walking the Interface: Uncovering Practices through ‘Proxy Technology Assessment’

  This paper describes the method of “proxy technology assessment”, which implies the formalisation of using current technological objects available on the market to generate a richer understanding of future everyday life practices with new media technologies. First, the theoretical framework...