Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Leaving the wild
T2 - CHI 2013 "Changing Perspectives"
AU - Taylor, Nick
AU - Cheverst, Keith
AU - Wright, Peter
AU - Olivier, Patrick
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As research increasingly turns to work 'in the wild' to design and evaluate technologies under real-world conditions, little consideration has been given to what happens when research ends. In many cases, users are heavily involved in the design process and encouraged to integrate the resulting technologies into their lives before they are withdrawn, while in some cases technologies are being left in place after research concludes. Often, little is done to assess the impact and legacy of these deployments. In this paper, we return to two examples in which we designed technologies with the involvement of communities and examine what steps were taken to ensure their long-term viability and what happened following the departure of researchers. From these examples, we provide guidelines for planning and executing technology handovers when conducting research with communities.
AB - As research increasingly turns to work 'in the wild' to design and evaluate technologies under real-world conditions, little consideration has been given to what happens when research ends. In many cases, users are heavily involved in the design process and encouraged to integrate the resulting technologies into their lives before they are withdrawn, while in some cases technologies are being left in place after research concludes. Often, little is done to assess the impact and legacy of these deployments. In this paper, we return to two examples in which we designed technologies with the involvement of communities and examine what steps were taken to ensure their long-term viability and what happened following the departure of researchers. From these examples, we provide guidelines for planning and executing technology handovers when conducting research with communities.
KW - action research
KW - community
KW - longitudinal
KW - research in the wild
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878001721&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2470654.2466206
DO - 10.1145/2470654.2466206
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-1-4503-1899-0
SP - 1549
EP - 1558
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13)
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY, USA
Y2 - 27 April 2013 through 2 May 2013
ER -