Supporting ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing in the wild
Supporting ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing in the wild
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支持野外普适计算的民族志研究
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2006
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Barry A. T. Brown
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Andy Crabtree;S. Benford;C. Greenhalgh;P. Tennent;M. Chalmers;Barry A. T. Brown
在过去的二十年里，人种志已经成为信息技术研究的主要特征，塑造了我们对计算机系统的社会特征的理解，并在各种各样的环境中为它们的设计提供了信息。然而，无处不在计算的出现给人种学提出了新的挑战，将互动分布在一系列利用不可见传感系统的小型移动设备和在线环境中。理解互动需要民族志学者将例如分布在街道上的设备上的互动与在线互动协调起来，以便收集对社会特征和购买无处不在的计算系统的连贯理解。我们借鉴了最近的四项研究，展示了民族志学者如何在现有资源(如视频记录)的基础上，重播互动的系统记录，以做到这一点，并确定需要应对的关键挑战，以支持对野外普适计算的民族志研究。
Ethnography has become a staple feature of IT research over the last twenty years, shaping our understanding of the social character of computing systems and informing their design in a wide variety of settings. The emergence of ubiquitous computing raises new challenges for ethnography however, distributing interaction across a burgeoning array of small, mobile devices and online environments which exploit invisible sensing systems. Understanding interaction requires ethnographers to reconcile interactions that are, for example, distributed across devices on the street with online interactions in order to assemble coherent understandings of the social character and purchase of ubiquitous computing systems. We draw upon four recent studies to show how ethnographers are replaying system recordings of interaction alongside existing resources such as video recordings to do this and identify key challenges that need to be met to support ethnographic study of ubiquitous computing in the wild.