Coordinative Practices in the Building Process

Lars Rune Christensen

ISBN 10: 1447141164 / ISBN 13: 9781447141167

Published by Springer London Jul 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 156 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coordinative Practices in the Building Process
• Publisher: Springer London Jul 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447141164
• ISBN 13: 9781447141167
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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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.