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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
System design.
Human-computer interaction.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I: Introduction
  • 1. The Wicked Problem of Design
  • 2. The CSCW Design Challenge
  • Part II: Evolution to the Locales Framework
  • 3. The wOrlds System
  • 4. Systems Engineers at Work
  • 5. How Systems Engineers Accomplish Work
  • 6. Moving From Space to Place
  • Part III: The Locales Framework
  • 7. Introduction to the Locales Framework
  • 8. Locales Framework Aspects
  • 9. Locales Framework Approach
  • 10. Distributed Research Work: A Tale of Two Groups
  • 11. Designing for Telehealth
  • 12. CSCW Environment Design: Orbit and Tickertape
  • 13. Conclusions, Reflections and Future Work
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.