Overview
- A special chapter on the practice-oriented research program in CSCW prepares the reader for the design of technology based on analytical findings derived from ethnographic fieldwork
- Provides novel insights into the coordination of cooperative work
- Presents empirically informed accounts of the building process to frame technological development
Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
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Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective presents the principles of the practice-oriented research programmes in the CSCW and HCI domains, explaining and examining the ideas and motivations behind basing technology design on ethnography. The focus throughout is on generating ethnographically informed accounts of the building process and discussing the concepts of cooperative work and coordinative practices in order to frame technology development.
Lars Rune Christensen provides an invaluable resource for these communities in this book. Illustrated with real examples from the building process, he reports on the cooperative work and coordinative practices found, allowing readers to feel that they know, from the point of view of the people working in the building process, what it is like to coordinate and do this kind of cooperative work.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coordinative Practices in the Building Process
Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic Perspective
Authors: Lars Rune Christensen
Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4117-4
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4116-7Published: 28 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5867-7Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4117-4Published: 28 July 2012
Series ISSN: 1431-1496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 138
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Anthropology