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Applying ethnography in the analysis and support of expertise in engineering design

✍ Scribed by Linden J Ball; Thomas C Ormerod

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
84 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0142-694X

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✦ Synopsis

he use of ethnographic methods in design research has proliferated in recent years [1][2][3][4] since the seminal research of Suchman 5 and Lave 6 which affirmed the importance of studying real-world problem-solving and planning behaviours as situated practices. It often appears, however, that there is only a limited overlap between the approaches taken by design researchers employing what they term ethnographic methods and the ethnographic techniques that have formed the basis of much traditional anthropological and sociological research. In this paper we argue that this 1 Anderson, R J 'Representations and requirements:

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