A mobile computer system to support collaborative ethnography: an approach to the elicitation of knowledge of work teams in complex environments

  • Authors:
  • Luiz Carlos L. Silva, Jr.;Marcos R. S. Borges;Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate Program in Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;Graduate Program in Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;Graduate Program in Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • CRIWG'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Collaboration and technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper presents a collaborative ethnography approach for knowledge elicitation of work teams in complex environments. It discusses the concepts of cognitive systems, distributed cognition, and presents a review of methods commonly used in the elicitation of knowledge both in the case of traditional and complex environments. Then, it points to some advantages of a collaborative approach in comparison to other non-collaborative approaches. An evaluation plan of the collaborative ethnography approach based on experimentation, and the development of a mobile system to support the proposed methodology is also presented. This system aims to stimulate collaboration and an organization in the ethnographic knowledge elicitation process.