March 15, 2006

Stefan Carmien, Melissa Dawe, Anja Kintsch

Ethnography In Designing Socio-Technical Environments
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Abstract

Our formal training as technologists and designers often leaves gaps in how to do research in the socio side of socio-technical environments. Melissa Dawe, Stefan Carmien and Anja Kintsch will present our experiences in using ethnography as a tool to understand the context and the stakeholders in our work designing systems for persons with cognitive disabilities and support communities. We hope to spark a discussion with the larger L3D community that have used or are interested in using this approach.

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