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Coordinative Practices in the Building Process

An Ethnographic Perspective

  • A special chapter on the practice-oriented research program in CSCW prepares the reader for the design of technology based on analytical findings derived from ethnographic fieldwork
  • Provides novel insights into the coordination of cooperative work
  • Presents empirically informed accounts of the building process to frame technological development

Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 1-3
  3. The Practice-Oriented Research Program in CSCW

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 5-16
  4. The View from Organizational Studies

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 17-29
  5. Introduction to the Building Process

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 31-48
  6. The Relationship Between Design and Construction

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 49-63
  7. Apprenticeship and Visual Skills

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 65-78
  8. Coordinative Practices

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 79-101
  9. On the Concept of Intrinsic Coordination

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 103-119
  10. Implications for CSCW

    • Lars Rune Christensen
    Pages 121-132
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 133-135

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Technologies in Practice Group, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Lars Rune Christensen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coordinative Practices in the Building Process

  • Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic Perspective

  • Authors: Lars Rune Christensen

  • Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4117-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4116-7Published: 28 July 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5867-7Published: 09 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4117-4Published: 28 July 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1496

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 138

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Anthropology

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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