Page 1. Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities Sara Bury, Johnathan Ish... more Page 1. Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities Sara Bury, Johnathan Ishmael, Nicholas JP Race, Paul Smith, and Mark Rouncefield Computing Department, InfoLab21 Lancaster University, Lancaster ...
This chapter focuses on our exploration of awareness-related messaging by users of a situated dis... more This chapter focuses on our exploration of awareness-related messaging by users of a situated display-based messaging system. The system, known as Hermes, was ini-tially deployed outside offices in the Computing Department at Lancaster University (see Cheverst et al., ...
... Page 4. Simon Kelly. Lancaster University, UK. Meetings.doc. CCEAM-2004. ... forceful, charis... more ... Page 4. Simon Kelly. Lancaster University, UK. Meetings.doc. CCEAM-2004. ... forceful, charismatic, and positive agents of change and improvement (Bryman, 1992; Gemmill and Oakley, 1992). As part of this 'mythologization' of leadership, much is made of the distinction ...
... Simon Kelly, Marian Iszatt White and Mark Rouncefield ... and Skills Sector', bu... more ... Simon Kelly, Marian Iszatt White and Mark Rouncefield ... and Skills Sector', but which also handed over the responsibility of inspection from the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) to the Office of Standards in Education (Ofsted) and the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI). ...
Page 1. Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities Sara Bury, Johnathan Ish... more Page 1. Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities Sara Bury, Johnathan Ishmael, Nicholas JP Race, Paul Smith, and Mark Rouncefield Computing Department, InfoLab21 Lancaster University, Lancaster ...
This chapter focuses on our exploration of awareness-related messaging by users of a situated dis... more This chapter focuses on our exploration of awareness-related messaging by users of a situated display-based messaging system. The system, known as Hermes, was ini-tially deployed outside offices in the Computing Department at Lancaster University (see Cheverst et al., ...
... Page 4. Simon Kelly. Lancaster University, UK. Meetings.doc. CCEAM-2004. ... forceful, charis... more ... Page 4. Simon Kelly. Lancaster University, UK. Meetings.doc. CCEAM-2004. ... forceful, charismatic, and positive agents of change and improvement (Bryman, 1992; Gemmill and Oakley, 1992). As part of this 'mythologization' of leadership, much is made of the distinction ...
... Simon Kelly, Marian Iszatt White and Mark Rouncefield ... and Skills Sector', bu... more ... Simon Kelly, Marian Iszatt White and Mark Rouncefield ... and Skills Sector', but which also handed over the responsibility of inspection from the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) to the Office of Standards in Education (Ofsted) and the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI). ...
In ''The Man Who Fell To Earth&... more In ''The Man Who Fell To Earth''[1, 2], a university professor Dr. Bryce, is stunned by the rapid development, adoption and deployment of a number of technologies—including, for example,''self-developing''photographic film. Bryce is shocked by the fact that these advances have passed him by, become mundane artefacts in everyday use, without him noticing, in a field, a discipline, where he is supposed to be an expert. For many of us, it is not only the sheer pace of technology change that is so bewildering but also the impact of ...
In this paper we consider the development of ‘digital records’ to support ethnographic study of i... more In this paper we consider the development of ‘digital records’ to support ethnographic study of interaction and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments and articulate the core concept of ‘record and replay’ through two case studies. One focuses on the utility of digital records, or records of interaction generated by a computer system, to ethnographic inquiry and highlights the mutually supportive nature of digital records and ethnographic methods. The other focuses on the work it takes to make digital records support ethnography, particularly the work of description and representation that is required to reconcile the fragmented character of interaction in ubiquitous computing environments. The work involved in ‘making digital records work’ highlights requirements for the design of tools to support the endeavour and informs the development of a Replay Tool. This tool enables ethnographers to visualize the data content of digital records; to extract sequences of relevance to analysis and remove non-relevant features; to marry recorded content with external resources, such as video; to add content from internal and external resources through annotation; and to reorder digital records to reflect the interactional order of events rather than the recorded order of events.
Awareness Systems: Advances in Theory, Methodology and Design, 2009
This chapter focuses on our exploration of awareness-related messaging by users of a situated dis... more This chapter focuses on our exploration of awareness-related messaging by users of a situated display-based messaging system. The system, known as Hermes, was initially deployed outside offices in the Computing Department at Lancaster University (see Cheverst et al., 2003a,b) and a significant portion of its use related to awareness, e.g. a member of staff posting a message on her door display accounting for her absence or indicating her future presence. A second version of the Hermes system has recently been across 40 offices in the Computing Department’s new home, a building called Infolab.
This article presents some early, design-oriented research findings from a study that introduced ... more This article presents some early, design-oriented research findings from a study that introduced mobile blogging technologies to four people who wished to make a health-related life change--giving up smoking. We wanted to establish the nature of the relationship between blogging and quitting smoking (if any), inspired by some earlier work in the domain showing that social technologies may help with the quit process. We present an account of three participants, documenting details of how blogging technologies fitted into their (changing) lives and examples of digital content they produced. We describe, using examples from participant blogs, instances of self-expression, replacement and self-awareness. We suggest, despite all participants failing in their quit attempts, that there are possible provisional, therapeutic characteristics to such social technologies. Finally, we suggest this therapeutic process can be understood better through a concept of personal translucence.
Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech ’08), Nov 2008
In this paper, drawing on studies of photo use by five Chinese families, we make the argument tha... more In this paper, drawing on studies of photo use by five Chinese families, we make the argument that practices around photographs in Chinese families reflect deeper values of 'diffused' religion that are worked out in the course of family life. We present evidence in the form of three examples to support our argument: the careful documenting of photos as reflecting
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008, Oct 1, 2008
... Here we consider Cultural Probes [4,5]; Informational Probes [3]; Technology Probes [9];Mobil... more ... Here we consider Cultural Probes [4,5]; Informational Probes [3]; Technology Probes [9];Mobile Probes [8]; Empathy Probes [10]; Domestic Probes [12]; and Urban Probes [11]. ... MobileProbes Mobile probes extend the notion of a Technology Probe. ...
Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation, Nov 11, 2004
Cheverst, K. and Fitton, D. and Rouncefield, M. and Graham, C. (2004) Smart mobs and technology p... more Cheverst, K. and Fitton, D. and Rouncefield, M. and Graham, C. (2004) Smart mobs and technology probes: evaluating texting at work. UNSPECIFIED. ... Full text not available from this repository. ... Lancaster EPrints is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the ...
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2010, Nov 16, 2010
This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values a... more This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values and beliefs. We document recent empirical work on the use of photographs amongst Chinese families; pointing to some differences with previous empirical studies from predominantly Western cultures and tentatively linking Chinese photo work to rather broader cultural values that may develop some ‘sensitivities’ for design. For some time ethnography has been interested in ‘values’ in methodological approaches and concerns. The notion of ‘values’ is also repeatedly called upon in ethnographic studies of (technology for) the home. In this appeal these studies tellingly echo Peter Winch's sentiments regarding how, in general, social life can be understood only through a understanding of beliefs. This paper documents and explicates photo work amongst Chinese families, linking the families' own explanations and comments about these practices to much wider, if particular, sets of social and cultural values and reflects on the potential influence of these values on technology design.
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences, Nov 5, 2007
This paper reports on research-driven design of social technologies. It describes an exploratory ... more This paper reports on research-driven design of social technologies. It describes an exploratory field study evaluating and re-conceiving blogging technologies - a mobile phone, a mobile blog, a Weblog and synchronization software - to support personal change, in this case quitting smoking. We briefly describe the design of the blogging technologies and summarise the outcomes of their extended use by
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