The locales framework : understanding and designing for wicked problems /

This book presents the Locales Framework - and its five aspects of locale foundations, civic structures, individual views, interaction trajectory and mutuality - as a way of dealing with the intertwined problem-solution space of wicked problems. A locale is based on a metaphor of place as the lived...

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Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Geraldine
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]
Series:Kluwer international series on computer supported cooperative work ; v. 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book presents the Locales Framework - and its five aspects of locale foundations, civic structures, individual views, interaction trajectory and mutuality - as a way of dealing with the intertwined problem-solution space of wicked problems. A locale is based on a metaphor of place as the lived relationship between people and the spaces and resources they use in their interactions. The Locales Framework provides a coherent mediating framework for ethnographers, designers, and software engineers to facilitate both understanding requirements of complex social situations and designing solutions to support these situations in all their complexity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-238) and index.
ISBN:9789401703635 (electronic bk.)
9401703639 (electronic bk.)