Medication management in the making: on ethnography-design relations

Tariq Osman Andersen

doi:10.1145/2441776.2441901

Medication management in the making: on ethnography-design relations

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Abstract

The relation between ethnography and design is often discussed in terms of being direct or indirect. The debate on using ethnography in design, models the problem as a matter of mediating between users and designers. This fails to take 'use' serious and renders the problem epistemic i.e. a matter of creating a better understanding or description of the user. Inspired by later developments in Science and Technology Studies I engage an ontological reconceptualization and turn to consider and practice the relation as performative - thus making ethnography, design and users' practices converge. I show this by the case of how the concept of 'medication management' has been performed differently on a combined CSCW and participatory design project in healthcare. It is suggested that through design interventions with working prototypes; prospective analysis and participatory design can be fruitfully assembled in situations of use.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work : CSCW '13
Antal sider	10
Forlag	Association for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato	2013
Sider	1103-1112
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-4503-1331-5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441901
Status	Udgivet - 2013
Begivenhed	ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2013: CSCW '13 - San Antonio, USA Varighed: 23 feb. 2013 → 27 feb. 2013

Konference

Konference	ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2013
Land/Område	USA
By	San Antonio
Periode	23/02/2013 → 27/02/2013

Adgang til dokumentet

10.1145/2441776.2441901

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Citationsformater

Andersen, TO 2013, Medication management in the making: on ethnography-design relations. i Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW '13. Association for Computing Machinery, s. 1103-1112, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2013, San Antonio, USA, 23/02/2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441901

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