How HCI interprets the probes

Kirsten Boehner; Janet Vertesi; Phoebe Sengers; Paul Dourish

doi:10.1145/1240624.1240789

How HCI interprets the probes

Kirsten Boehner, Janet Vertesi, Phoebe Sengers, Paul Dourish

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Abstract

We trace how cultural probes have been adopted and adapted by the HCI community. The flexibility of probes has been central to their uptake, resulting in a proliferation of divergent uses and derivatives. The varying patterns of adaptation of the probes reveal important underlying issues in HCI, suggesting underacknowledged disagreements about valid interpretation and the relationship between methods and their underlying methodology. With this analysis, we aim to clarify discussions around probes, and, more importantly, around how we define and evaluate methods in HCI, especially those grounded in unfamiliar conceptions of how research should be done.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
Pages	1077-1086
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240789
State	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Apr 28 2007 → May 3 2007

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	4/28/07 → 5/3/07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Keywords

Cultural probes
Probes
Reflective HCI

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Boehner, K, Vertesi, J, Sengers, P & Dourish, P 2007, How HCI interprets the probes. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 1077-1086, 25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, United States, 4/28/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240789

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