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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "ethnography"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Beyond Hallway Chats ? Negotiating Content Awareness in Hybrid Work Practices
    (Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024, 2024) Landowski, Mirjam; Effert, Jana-Sophie; Günther, Franziska; Tebart, Markus; Moerike, Frauke
    Deciding where to work in hybrid environments involves various factors beyond work-life balance. Awareness of colleagues’ tasks arises from overheard conversations, screen glimpses, and other informal exchanges in the office. This knowledge sharing is crucial for effective work. However, knowledge workers navigate between the office, home, and mobile work, leading to constant re-negotiations of hybrid work environments. This article uses data from ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews to illustrate how knowledge workers outweigh decisions for work location and strategically use informal office interactions to advance tasks on-site. Although the body of research on awareness and knowledge work is by now substantial, the spontaneous knowledge exchange in everyday practices is under-explored. This study addresses two questions: (I) what factors influence decisions between mobile and office work, and (II) how on-site practices generate different types of awareness that support task progress.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Cultural Probes: The best way to go for PD in sensitive research settings? A methodological reflexion
    (Mensch und Computer 2017 - Workshopband, 2017) Schorch, Marén; Müller, Claudia; Meurer, Johanna
    Cultural Probes are widely used as a methodological tool in participatory design (PD) processes. In our contribution, we focus on the use of probes in the sensitive, intimate setting of informal care and discuss their role as one methodological option (or “tool kit”) within a longer, mixed method-process of an international and interdisciplinary PD design project. We state that a carefully designed set of probes and a rather flexible use of them can not only support the understanding of a certain setting and the involved (care) practices for the researchers, but also underlines the involvement of the participants within the co-design-process.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Digital Probes Kit
    (i-com: Vol. 17, No. 2, 2018) Koch, Daniel; Maaß, Susanne
    (Cultural) probes have been used in various software design projects and HCI contexts over the last years. With the ubiquity of smartphones today, there are new ways to design probes material as digital probes. Smartphones allow to document everyday life in situ in mobile contexts and provide a permanent channel for communication between researchers and participants. Based on an analysis of strengths and weaknesses of traditional probes, we propose a concept for a Digital Probes Kit in the form of a digital diary and describe its potential.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Gestaltung von Mitfahrsystemen für ältere Erwachsene
    (i-com: Vol. 13, No. 2, 2014) Meurer, Johanna; Stein, Martin; Wulf, Volker; Rohde, Markus
    Motivated by rising global energy demands and a growing awareness of the scarcity of natural resources sustainable mobility concepts are demanded as much as never before. One solution is offered by ridesharing concepts, realized with ICT supported mobile interaction systems. Current systems already address issues of comfort or efficiency and thus refer to mobility widely in functional terms of transport, moving people from one place to another. However, ridesharing is in its basic conception an interactive cooperation between at least two persons negotiating a shared ride. We argue in this paper for the necessary of a praxis-based perspective on ridesharing in order to explore the interactive mechanisms people refer to in ridesharing situations. We will show that a phenomenological inquiry provides added value in understanding practical challenges in ridesharing contexts, and identifying methods used to address practical challenges that can provide new starting points for design.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Seeing the World through the Eyes of Informal Caregivers with Cultural Probes
    (Mensch und Computer 2017 - Workshopband, 2017) Hensely-Schinkinger, Susanne; Habiger, Michael; Tellioglu, Hilda
    To get to know your target group is a very important first step in research projects – especially when they don’t have enough time to tell you everything, like informal caregivers. During our pre-study in the project TOPIC we applied cultural probes combined with in-depth interviews and participatory observations. We asked the users to use a diary, polaroid camera, actimoClock, emoticons, social map, and picture cards for a period of 14 days. Most of these cultural probes worked well and delivered important information about users’ daily life, problems and feelings, while some were anticipated differently. The paper presents the cultural probes and their use by discussing some relevant findings.