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HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Serial Hanging Out: Rapid Ethnographic Needs Assessment in Rural Settings
This paper presents an ethnographic method for assessing user needs in designing for rural settings. “Serial Hanging Out” consists of short-term participant observation with mu...
Jaspal S. Sandhu, P. Altankhuyag, D. Amarsaikhan
BIRTHDAY
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Sync or Swarm: Musical Improvisation and the Complex Dynamics of Group Creativity
This essay draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, phenomenological inquiry, and recent insights from the study of swarm intelligence and complex networks to ill...
David Borgo
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Social Context of Software Maintenance
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Jonathan Sillito, Eleanor Wynn
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
An Online Community as a New Tribalism: The World of Warcraft
Massive, multiplayer online role-playing games foster rich social environments. Within the game, players can interact with other players, make friends, create and cultivate new on...
Thomas W. Brignall III, Thomas L. Van Valey
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Designing with children with severe motor impairments
Children with severe motor impairments such as with disabilities resulting from severe cerebral palsy benefit greatly from assistive technology, but very little guidance is availa...
Anthony J. Hornof