Comments on: Ethnography: a new form of research? http://bradlauster.com/archives/166 On User Experience Design and life, since 2000. Now in New York City! Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve Portigal http://bradlauster.com/archives/166/comment-page-1#comment-70 Steve Portigal Sun, 09 Dec 2001 21:06:40 +0000 http://bradlauster.com/?p=166#comment-70 By the way, Intel has been doing ethnography and actively promoting the usage of it for quite a while. They had the first CHI papers I had ever seen about this sort of research. I can't think of other corporations that are as far ahead as they are. I gather that it's a bit of a show pony for the company and they don't necessarily feed their results into product as often as some would like (this is IMHO, of course), but as far as advancing the field, I give them big-time credit. By the way, Intel has been doing ethnography and actively promoting the usage of it for quite a while. They had the first CHI papers I had ever seen about this sort of research. I can’t think of other corporations that are as far ahead as they are. I gather that it’s a bit of a show pony for the company and they don’t necessarily feed their results into product as often as some would like (this is IMHO, of course), but as far as advancing the field, I give them big-time credit.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://bradlauster.com/archives/166/comment-page-1#comment-69 Steve Portigal Sun, 09 Dec 2001 20:52:30 +0000 http://bradlauster.com/?p=166#comment-69 By the way, Intel has been doing ethnography and actively promoting the usage of it for quite a while. They had the first CHI papers I had ever seen about this sort of research. I can't think of other corporations that are as far ahead as they are. I gather that it's a bit of a show pony for the company and they don't necessarily feed their results into product as often as some would like (this is IMHO, of course), but as far as advancing the field, I give them big-time credit. By the way, Intel has been doing ethnography and actively promoting the usage of it for quite a while. They had the first CHI papers I had ever seen about this sort of research. I can’t think of other corporations that are as far ahead as they are. I gather that it’s a bit of a show pony for the company and they don’t necessarily feed their results into product as often as some would like (this is IMHO, of course), but as far as advancing the field, I give them big-time credit.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://bradlauster.com/archives/166/comment-page-1#comment-68 Steve Portigal Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:23:59 +0000 http://bradlauster.com/?p=166#comment-68 If it's not seen as "new," they won't write about it. I'd rather have them make errors like that, and give more press to what we do. The more awareness there is (and I know, this is your point as well), the easier it will be to make contributions of this form. Steve If it’s not seen as “new,” they won’t write about it. I’d rather have them make errors like that, and give more press to what we do. The more awareness there is (and I know, this is your point as well), the easier it will be to make contributions of this form.

Steve

]]> By: Jakub Linowski http://bradlauster.com/archives/166/comment-page-1#comment-67 Jakub Linowski Tue, 04 Dec 2001 06:04:49 +0000 http://bradlauster.com/?p=166#comment-67 Yup, Intel is getting too much credit there. Ethnography was applied by designers way earlier, as seen by the example of Henry Dreyfuss at <a href="http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/99ed_proceed/paper019.htm" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/99ed_proceed/paper019.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/99ed_proceed/paper019.htm</a></a>. Also, once during a design history lecture, I heard something about Frank Lloyd Wright spending time (actually living) with a particular family, before designing a house for them. :) Woohoo, bow before ethnography... Yup, Intel is getting too much credit there. Ethnography was applied by designers way earlier, as seen by the example of Henry Dreyfuss at http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/99ed_proceed/paper019.htm. Also, once during a design history lecture, I heard something about Frank Lloyd Wright spending time (actually living) with a particular family, before designing a house for them. :) Woohoo, bow before ethnography…

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