The Locales Framework
Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems
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Some ten or fifteen years ago there was a well-known TV advert shown in the UK that implied that cool people drank Martini ‘anytime, anyplace’. Since then, in the UK at least, the term ‘Martini solutions’ has ...
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This paper reports ethnographically informedobservations of the use of mobile phones andtext messaging services amongst young people.It offers a sociological explanation for thepopularity of text messaging and...
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This reports research on users’ attitudes towards and use of GSM devices and discusses the implications these have for the future evolution of hand-held devices. It argues that current usage patterns suggest t...
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It is nearly two decades since Marvin wrote When Old Technologies Were New (Marvin, 1988). In that text, Marvin explored whether the impact of electronic communications at the end of the nineteenth century (and t...
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Designers are increasingly being urged to take account of the situated and contingent organisation of the work that their systems are to support or automate. Within CSCW the concept of work-practice is a much ...
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This paper reports findings of research into the nature of collaboration in a design company. Observations of the shared work of two groups, architects and building services engineers, are discussed and the ro...