Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in two industrial design departments and two design companies, we explore the role of spatial arrangements for supporting creative design practices within different design studios. From our results, we show that designers explicitly make use of the physical space for 1) communicating and inspiring design ideas, 2) exploring design solutions and 3) ma...

This paper reports design implications based on an ethnographic study of an occupational group at the Swedish National Road Administration-Production. One specific condition of the road inspectors work situation is their ongoing movement while conducting their work, this factor do also limit their possibilities to perform a decent work. Findings from the empirical fieldwork indicate that the sy...

Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development may be strong driving factors for local policies and may have great importance in strategic decision making at territorial level; then, they may be important subjects for eParticipation studies. But this paper demonstrates, through a literature review, that today’s disciplinary shape of eParticipation as a research field is not suitable to effectively i...

More and more companies are doing international research as they design products and services for people around the world. These studies are particularly complex and challenging however, and there are, to date, relatively few resources to guide the people doing them. This tutorial uses scenarios and discussion to help practitioners learn how to approach, plan, manage, and interpret internationa...

Mobile location-based systems can be of use to enrich community life. Based on an ethnographic study of community road signs, we argue that these systems fit somewhat with an abundant practice where private persons make and post signs along the roads. People who live along roads have various reasons, and investigate in various ways, to communicate with passing drivers. Even though these road si...

Effective interplay between laboratory and field research is dependent upon giving up scientific isolationism, and demands for leadership. An effective, integrated approach has to include all entomologists, and particularly those working in diseaseendemic countries (DECs).