Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Lars Rune Christensen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 148
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective presents the principles of the practice-oriented research programmes in the CSCW and HCI domains, explaining and examining the ideas and motivations behind basing technology design on ethnography. The focus throughout is on generating ethnographically informed accounts of the building process and discussing the concepts of cooperative work and coordinative practices in order to frame technology development.

Lars Rune Christensen provides an invaluable resource for these communities in this book. Illustrated with real examples from the building process, he reports on the cooperative work and coordinative practices found, allowing readers to feel that they know, from the point of view of the people working in the building process, what it is like to coordinate and do this kind of cooperative work.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
The Practice-Oriented Research Program in CSCW....Pages 5-16
The View from Organizational Studies....Pages 17-29
Introduction to the Building Process....Pages 31-48
The Relationship Between Design and Construction....Pages 49-63
Apprenticeship and Visual Skills....Pages 65-78
Coordinative Practices....Pages 79-101
On the Concept of Intrinsic Coordination....Pages 103-119
Implications for CSCW....Pages 121-132
Back Matter....Pages 133-135

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Anthropology