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L14R4. Don Norman, "Why Doing User Observations First Is Wrong", ACM Interactions, July-August 2006

Guide Questions:

  • What is the relationship between HCI professionals' methodologies and other software application lifecycle methodologies?
  • How can these issues be addressed? 

L14R3. David R. Millen, "Rapid Ethnography: Time Deepening Strategies for HCI Field Research", Designing Interactive Systems, 2000

Guide Questions:

  • What is ethnography? What are the inherent issues with ethnography?
  • What are the techniques that can be applied in order to make ethnography more effective in the given time frame?

L14R2. Hugh R. Beyer & Karen Holtzblatt , "Apprenticing with the Customer", Communications of the ACM, May 1995

Guide Questions:

  • How does contextual inquiry become an effective method for gathering user requirements?
  • What are the dos and don'ts of being an apprentice? 

L14R1. Jill Blue Lin & Zachary Gillen, Contextual Inquiry, "MD: Notes - Designing an Information Service for Public Hospitals", UC Berkeley School of Information, April 2008

Guide Questions:

  • What were the different ethnographic techniques used by the group?  
  • How did they analyze the results from their ethnography activities?
  • What were their key learnings or takeaways?
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