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Dear Colleague:
This is an invitation to join and participate in this new list on
sociotechnical issues surrounding interaction design. This list focuses
on how diverse qualitative areas of the social sciences (e.g. Sociology
of Technology, Discourse Analysis, Critical Theory, Actor Network
Theory, Communication Theories, Activity Theory, Cultural Models such as
Hofstede's, Hermeneutics among others) can contribute to create better
IT for people.
The space enabled by this list will contribute to the translation of
interesting insights provided by these disciplines into actionable
recommendations and guidelines for:
* The conception, design and evaluation of interactive systems
as social proxies.
* A feasible integration of user-centred design with novel
development methodologies.
* Improved methods for the gathering and elicitation of
sociocultural requirements.
* The identification of adequate technology policies for
settings in which technology is deployed.
The list's key interests are the ubiquitous, pervasive and social proxy
dimensions of interactive systems and how its usefulness is socially
constructed and culturally shaped. It is hoped this list will foster
dialogue between academics in different disciplines (e.g. HCI, CSCW,
Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Marketing, Software Engineering,
Ergonomics, Education, Information Systems, among others) interested in
this topic.
An initial question and point of discussion is the following:
Is this attempt at 'translation' really feasible despite the
epistemological differences between disciplines whose main interest is
understanding social phenomena and disciplines whose main interest is
the design of interactive systems?
You can join the list here:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=sociotech-interactiond
esign&A=1
Thanks for reading!
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