Title
Reworking the Gaps between Design and Ethnography.
Abstract
Since Dourish's critique of 'implications for design' [15], researchers have asked how design and ethnography should or could relate in HCI. Here we reflect on two experiences with cross-informing ongoing ethnographic investigation with the early stages of research through design. One uses speculative design to reflect on and inform ethnographic fieldwork on busyness in middle-class familes; the other uses speculative design to complement late-stage analysis of a historical ethnography of rural technological infrastructure. Rather than trying to do away with the gap between ethnography and design by seamlessly integrating the two processes, we reworked the relationship between ethnography and design by closing the gap in the temporal workflows while simultaneously maintaining a distinction in the performance of the two roles. We found that this new gap resulted in a series of misunderstandings; but by putting the two roles in active dialogue, we were able leverage misunderstandings into mutual benefit.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3025453.3026051
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
speculative design, ethnography, inventive methods
Data science,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Ethnography,Workflow,Management science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.51
34
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vera Khovanskaya1837.44
Phoebe Sengers22274180.24
Melissa Mazmanian323618.71
Charles Darrah440.51