Ethnographies of Code workshop

Guidance on Performing Focused Ethnographies with an Emphasis on Healthcare Research

Focused ethnographies can have meaningful and useful application in primary care, community, or hospital healthcare practice, and are often used to determine ways to improve care and care processes. They can be pragmatic and efficient ways to capture data on a specific topic of importance to individual clinicians or clinical specialties. While many examples of focused ethnographies are availabl...

An anthropological approach to teach and evaluate cultural competence in medical students – the application of mini-ethnography in medical history taking

PURPOSE To use mini-ethnographies narrating patient illness to improve the cultural competence of the medical students. METHODS Between September 2013 and June 2015, all sixth-year medical students doing their internship at a medical center in eastern Taiwan were trained to write mini-ethnographies for one of the patients in their care. The mini-ethnographies were analyzed by authors with foc...

“ Ethnographies of heritage and power ”

Rapid Application Development (RAD) and code optimization technique

In this paper the efficiency of code generated by a particular RAD systems will be examined and contrasted with other available systems. The functionality and performance of SMT6050, the new software module from Sundance, helping RAD systems target DSP will be fully discussed. The RAD used as the base system, in this case, is Simulink and Real Time Workshop (RTW) from MathWorks . These two prod...

Reconstructing Technologies as Social Practice

This article provides an overview of a research program developed over the past 20 years to explore relations between everyday practices and technology design and use. The studies highlighted reflect three interrelated lines of inquiry: (a) critical analyses of technical discourses and practices, (b) ethnographies of work and technologies-in-use, and (c) design interventions. Starting from the ...