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Issues and Understandings for Rural HCI Systems Development: Agile Approaches “In the Wild” (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, M., Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (2013). Issues and Understandings for Rural HCI Systems Development: Agile Approaches “In the Wild”. In HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I (22-26). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39473-7_5

Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’ (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Reeves, S., Tolmie, P., & Jones, M. (2013). Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’. In Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction Design; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (411-420). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39209-2_47

This paper outlines and describes the development of a multi-media data aggregation system called Placebooks. Placebooks was developed as a ubiquitous toolkit aimed at allowing people in rural areas to create and share digital books that contained a... Read More about Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’.

Cooking for pleasure (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013). Cooking for pleasure. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

Cooking is a mundane feature of everyday life, done by people around the world as a matter of necessity and, for some at least, as the business of pleasure. It seems surprising therefore that food, eating and cooking has, at least until relatively re... Read More about Cooking for pleasure.

A day out in the country (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., & Tolmie, P. (2013). A day out in the country. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

It is now commonplace to make strong distinctions between tourism and visiting practices in city environments and rural environments (see LAgroup and Interarts 2005), with significantly different motivations presumed to pertain to the two kinds of ac... Read More about A day out in the country.

"How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013). "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation. In ECSW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (21-25). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_1

The title of this paper comes from comments made by an ‘angry’ ethnographer during a debriefing session. It reflects his frustration with a certain analytic mentality that would have him justify his observations in terms of the number of times he had... Read More about "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation.

Performance-Led Research in the Wild (2013)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Row Farr, J., Greenhalgh, C., Crabtree, A., …Giannachi, G. (2013). Performance-Led Research in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/2491500.2491502

We explore the approach of performance-led research in the wild in which artists drive the creation of novel performances with the support of HCI researchers that are then deployed and studied at public performance in cultural settings such as galler... Read More about Performance-Led Research in the Wild.