Designing with Ethnography: Making Work Visible

Making air pollution visible: An ethnography of data practices in a multi-disciplinary public health project

Ethnography in Participatory Design

Even the most cursory glance through recent proceedings of the biannual participatory design conference shows that ethnography is becoming an increasingly widespread technique in work-oriented design. This paper (1) explicates the rationale behind participatory design’s ‘turn to ethnography’; (2) identifies central problems with the technique’s employment from participatory design’s point of vi...

Designing a model of antecedents and consequences of thriving at work in employees of National Iranian Drilling Company‎

The aim of this study was designing a model of some antecedents and consequences of thriving at work for the employees of National Iranian Drilling Company(NIDC). In terms of objective, the research method was applied, in terms of data collection has been consumed a survey and in terms of data analysis was a descriptive study. Among employees of NIDC, 211 employees participated in the study. Da...

The contribution of ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography to the process of designing digital libraries

We describe ethnomethodologically informed ethnography as a methodology for information science research, illustrating it with the results of a study in a university library. We consider the issues that arise in coordinating the results of this research with the needs of information systems designers. As well as showing how ethnography can be used to inform systems design, this also carries imp...

SELECTIVE ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS Qualitative Modeling For Work Place Ethnography

In order to harness the value of workplace ethnography, it is becoming more and more apparent that we need a way to incorporate ethnographic data into work system analysis and design efforts. One of the biggest problems we face in this regard is making the best use of the insights that ethnography brings to a design process. Traditionally ethnography takes a lot of time, is done mostly in isola...