Feltarbeidet

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• Objectives
• Knowledge and skills in qualitative research,
  particularly field work research methods
• Knowledge of and experience applying methods for
  analyzing field data and materials

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• Content
• Introduction to research design, qualitative
  studies and field work
• Conducting field work, participation in group
  field work
• Knowledge from literature case studies, and
  from empirical studies

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• Multi-disciplinary field research
• Perspectives research team members
• Resources for sharing perspectives
• Field notes template flexible, iterative
• Perspectives practitioners, communities of
  practice
• Mapping diverse perspectives in relation to a
  shared object of activity
• Interviews planning to include perspectives
• Resources for reflection

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• Tools for multi-disciplinary field research
• Web site
• Field notes template, in-progress reporting
• Visual representations photos, graphics
• Mapping activities and communities of practice
• Audio interviews, talk at work, communicative
  action
• Video naturally occurring activities, active
  interviewing, interaction analysis
• Portfolios artifacts, documents, screen prints

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• E.g., NRK Interactiv Web site as a common object
• Building a cumulative picture of a complex object
  of design and use activities over time
• Following the development of a common object of
  activity over time (trajectory)

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• E.g., NRK Interaktiv Web site
• Perspectives, communities
• NRK developers, designers at NRK central offices
• design community, context of design
• NRK local offices Interaktiv, journalists,
  editors
• use community, context of use
• Public users
• use community, context of use

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• How to follow a common object of design and use?
• Motivations, goals, design intentions, desires
• Follow activities, processes, interactions
• Design, use, perspectives
• Communication, coordination, collaboration
• Individual activities, joint activities
• Problems, problem-solving

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• How to follow a common object of IS/IT design and
  use?
• Follow artifacts
• tools
• ideas, concepts
• resources material, conceptual

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• How to follow a common object of design and use?
• Follow particular communities of practice
• perspectives, participation
• particular objects of activity, motivations,
  goals expressed in use and in design
• identities, meaning construction
• heterogeneity

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• How to follow a common object of IS/IT design and
  use?
• Follow development over time
• recurring problems, dilemmas, contradictions,
  conflicts, gaps, breakdowns, discoordination
• problem-solving, novelty, innovations
• modifications, changes, iterative development
• How do design intentions change in use?
• How are design use co-constructed amongst
  communities of designers users?

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Feltarbeidet Analysis

• Broad themes
• Center-periphery participation
• Virtual organizations, virtual communities
• Design processes, interactive media design and
  use
• Identities and meaning construction in design and
  use of WWW, Internet, interactive media