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Locating systems at work: Implications for the development of active badge applications

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/12/1992
<mark>Journal</mark>Interacting with Computers
Issue number3
Volume4
Number of pages21
Pages (from-to)343-363
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The paper reports findings from a sociological examination of the use of ’active badge’ location information systems in two research laboratories, The use, distribution and control of location information is examined in reference to the social roles individuals have in what will be called the ’moral order’ of workplaces. Suggestions for subsequent versions of location systems are made, and the use of sociological methods in design remarked. © 1992 Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.