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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Design Ethnography?

Towards a Designerly Approach to Field Research

Author : Nicolas Nova

Published in: Empowering Users through Design

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

A few decades ago, a transfer of ethnographic approaches to design and design research started to appear. It generally aimed at helping designers to understand people, their culture, and their usage of technologies in order to design better products. Over the years, designers in their work have repurposed a large array of theoretical concepts, methods and tricks. This chapter reflects on this evolution, and describes the notion of “design ethnography” in order to highlight the specificity of this approach. A project that speculates on the future of gestural interactions with technologies exemplifies this approach.

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Metadata
Title
Design Ethnography?
Author
Nicolas Nova
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Empowering Users through Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-13017-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-13018-7

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13018-7_7

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