Connecting artefacts of R&D teams to their routines: how boundary objects are created and used

Authors:
Aaron Houssian
Affiliations:
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper describes the intermediate results of a participatory ethnography of an industrial research and development (R&D) team working in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. A particular focus on the purpose of artefacts and how they can be used as boundary objects [8] was taken in the work. What I describe in this paper is just one part of an ongoing analysis of that data, specifically how those artefacts/boundary objects are bound up in what are described as Pentland and Feldman describe as routines [7].