Making work visible : ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice / [edited by] Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen.
Szymanski, Margaret H.; Whalen, Jack, 1949-
2011
HD9802.3.U64 X4763 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Making work visible : ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice / [edited by] Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen.
ISBN
9780521176651 (pbk.)
0521176654 (pbk.)
9780521190725
052119072X
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xxvii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HD9802.3.U64 X4763 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.25/6
Summary
"In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological concern to make the study of interactional work an empirical, investigatory matter. This edited volume is an overview of Xerox's social science tradition. It uses detailed case studies that show how the client engagement was conducted over time and how the findings were consequential for business impact. Case studies in retail, production, office, and home settings cover four topics: practices around documents, the customer front, learning and knowledge-sharing, and competency transfer. The impetus for this book was a 2003 Xerox initiative to transfer knowledge about how to conduct ethnographically grounded work-practice studies to its consultants so that they may generate the kinds of knowledge generated by the researchers themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Szymanski, Margaret H.
Whalen, Jack, 1949-
Series
Learning in doing.
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Work practice and technology: a retrospective / Lucy Suchman
Engineering investigations: what is made visible in making work visible? / Wes Sharrock and Graham Button
Uncovering the unremarkable / Peter Tolmie
Work practices to understand the implications of nascent technology / Francoise Brun-Cottan and Patricia Wall
Tokyo to go: using field studies to inform the design of a mobile leisure guide for Japanese youth / Diane J. Schiano and Victoria Bellotti
Exploring documents and the future of work / Jennifer Watts-Perotti, Mary Ann Sprague, Patricia Wall, Catherine McCorkindale, Lisa Purvis, and Gabriele McLaughlin
New ways of working: the implications of work practice transitions / Mary Ann Sprague, Nathaniel Martin, and Johannes A. Koomen
Behind the scenes: the business side of medical records / Nathaniel Martin and Patricia Wall
Seeing the right colour: technical and practical solutions to the problem of accurate colour reproduction in the digital print industry / Tommaso Colombino, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill, Mary Ann Sprague, Jennifer Watts-Perotti, Jutta Willamowski, Frederic Roulland, and Antonietta Grasso
Integrated customer service: re-inventing a workscape / Jack Whalen and Marilyn Whalen
Interactions at a reprographics store / Erik Vinkhuyzen
Ethnography-inspired technology for remote help-giving / Jacki O'Neill, Peter Tolmie, Stefania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso, and Frederic Roulland
Sign of the times at the department store: replacing paper with electronic signs / Johannes A. Koomen
Communal knowledge sharing: the EUREKA story / Jack Whalen and Daniel G. Bobrow
Designing document solutions for airline maintenance advisories / Patricia Wall and Johannes A. Koomen
Transforming information system design: enabling users to design / Yutaka Yamauchi
Rethinking how projects are managed: meeting communication across the organizational hierarchy / Erik Vinkhuyzen and Nozomi Ikeya
Fujitsu learned ethnography from PARC: establishing the social science center / Koji Kishimoto with a preface by Jack Whalen
The work practice center of excellence / Luke Plurkowski, Margaret H. Szymanski, Patricia Wall, and Johannes A. Koomen
Transferring ethnographic competence: personal reflections on the past and future of work practice analysis / Brigitte Jordan.

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