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SUMMARY:How HCI Interprets the Probes - Alan Blackwell and Richard Harper
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CONTACT:Alan Blackwell
DESCRIPTION:Boehner\, K. Vertesi\, J. Sengers\, P. & Dourish\, P. (2007). 
 How HCI Interprets the Probes. In Proc. SIGCHI Conf. Human factors in comp
 uting systems (CHI'07). pp. 1077-1086\n\nOriginal abstract: We trace how c
 ultural probes have been adopted and adapted by the HCI community. The fle
 xibility of probes has been central to their uptake\, resulting in a proli
 feration of divergent uses and derivatives. The varying patterns of adapta
 tion of the probes reveal important underlying issues in HCI\, suggesting 
 underacknowledged disagreements about valid interpretation and the relatio
 nship between methods and their underlying methodology. With this analysis
 \, we aim to clarify discussions around probes\, and\, more importantly\, 
 around how we define and evaluate methods in HCI\, especially those ground
 ed in unfamiliar conceptions of how research should be done.\n\nAvailable 
 online from: "http://cemcom.infosci.cornell.edu/uploads/pubs/Boehner_Verte
 si_Sengers_Dourish_Probes.pdf":http://cemcom.infosci.cornell.edu/uploads/p
 ubs/Boehner_Vertesi_Sengers_Dourish_Probes.pdf
LOCATION:Jasmine Room\, Microsoft Research Cambridge
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