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Some notes on Spinuzzi’s excellent book “Tracing Genres Through Organizations” (MIT Press, 1993), written on my desktop computer as the laptop ist kaputt.

Spinuzzi’s work is very close to what I did in my PhD albeit from a different perspective. He follows what I perceive to be a postmodern approach to interpreting work, that attempts to […]

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Theory and (Interaction) Design

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

In the insightful pasta and vinegar blog is an interesting discussion about the role of theory in interaction design based on the relevant discussion in a book by Nardi & Kaptelinin.

The problem is the one between reductionist, analytical approaches to practice and theory heavy, ethnographic approaches. The first translate easier to design and can be […]

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