TY - BOOK ID - 7765661 TI - Deconstructing Ethnography : Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design AU - Button, Graham. AU - Crabtree, Andy. AU - Rouncefield, Mark. AU - Tolmie, Peter. PY - 2015 SN - 3319219537 3319219545 9783319219530 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Computer Science KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Ubiquitous computing. KW - Context-aware computing. KW - Human-computer interaction. KW - Computer-human interaction KW - Human factors in computing systems KW - Interaction, Human-computer KW - Context-aware pervasive systems KW - Context-awareness (Computer science) KW - Pervasive computing KW - UbiComp (Computer science) KW - Computer science. KW - User interfaces (Computer systems). KW - Application software. KW - Social sciences. KW - Computer Science. KW - User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. KW - Methodology of the Social Sciences. KW - Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. KW - Human engineering KW - User-centered system design KW - User interfaces (Computer systems) KW - Ubiquitous computing KW - Global system for mobile communications KW - Mobile computing KW - Sensor networks KW - Electronic data processing KW - Embedded computer systems KW - Distributed processing KW - Social sciences KW - Methodology. KW - Data processing. KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Interfaces, User (Computer systems) KW - Human-machine systems KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Sociology KW - Sociological Methods. KW - Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7765661 AB - This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived in and understood by ordinary members, whose common-sense understandings shape the actual milieu into which systems are placed and used. In Deconstructing Ethnography the authors show how ‘new’ calls are returning systems design to ‘old’ and problematic ways of understanding the social. They argue that systems design can be appropriately grounded in the social through the ordinary methods that members use to order their actions and interactions. This work is written for post-graduate students and researchers alike, as well as design practitioners who have an interest in bringing the social to bear on design in a systematic rather than a piecemeal way. This is not a ‘how to’ book, but instead elaborates the foundations upon which the social can be systematically built into the design of ubiquitous and interactive systems. ER -