Reference Information
“Reflexivity in Digital Anthropology"
Jennifer A. Rode.
Presented at the CHI ’11
Presented at the CHI ’11
Author Bio
- Jennifer A. Rode during her stay at Drexel University. Since, she has worked at the University College of London, the University of California and Carnegie Mellon University. She now works at the University of Cambridge. She has written 23 papers with an average impact factor of 7.3.
Summary
Hypothesis
That if UI designers were able to better implement and use ethnographies, HCI would improve with better user oriented development.
Methods
There was no testing and there was no "real" ie testable hypothesis. It was more of a cheat sheet for ethnography/user study design to pick the correct type for an application.
Results
Her results were a series of definitions about ethnographies, terms related to it and reflexivity.She characterizes. realist, confessional, and impressionistic ethnographies.
Contents
The contents of the paper were the a manual of how to go about using ethnographies in order to benefit computer science and user interfaces as a whole. It contained a listing of several types of ethnographies and in what situations and contexts that they are appropriate.
Hypothesis
That if UI designers were able to better implement and use ethnographies, HCI would improve with better user oriented development.
Methods
There was no testing and there was no "real" ie testable hypothesis. It was more of a cheat sheet for ethnography/user study design to pick the correct type for an application.
Results
Her results were a series of definitions about ethnographies, terms related to it and reflexivity.She characterizes. realist, confessional, and impressionistic ethnographies.
Contents
The contents of the paper were the a manual of how to go about using ethnographies in order to benefit computer science and user interfaces as a whole. It contained a listing of several types of ethnographies and in what situations and contexts that they are appropriate.
Discussion
I did not like this paper for a couple reasons. The first was that it didn't seem to make any contributions of it's own, it was like a literature review but with a lack of case studies. This paper also appeared slightly out of place in a computer science conference and I'm not sure if it belonged.
I did not like this paper for a couple reasons. The first was that it didn't seem to make any contributions of it's own, it was like a literature review but with a lack of case studies. This paper also appeared slightly out of place in a computer science conference and I'm not sure if it belonged.
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