Ethnography considered useful: Situating criticality

Ann Morrison; S. Viller; P. Mitchell

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Ethnography considered useful: Situating criticality

Ann Morrison, S. Viller, P. Mitchell

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Increasingly the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and art are intersecting. Interactive artworks are being evaluated by HCI methods and artworks are being created that employ and repurpose technology for interactive environments. In this paper we steer a path between empirical and critical-theoretical traditions, and discuss HCI research and art works that also span this divide. We address concerns about 'new' ethnography raised by Crabtree et al. (2009) in "Ethnography Considered Harmful", a critical essay that positions ethnographic and critical-theoretical views at odds with each other. We propose a mediated view for understanding interactions within open-ended interactive artworks that values both perspectives as we navigate boundaries between art practice and HCI. Copyright the author(s) and CHISIG.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OZCHI '10 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2010
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0502-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1952222.1952261
Publication status	Published - 2010

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OZCHI '10 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010.

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