[Siguse-l] Re: Siguse-l Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1

[P. Bryan Heidorn]

yes but...
Best practice is just as you describe, develop unique methods  
"sensitive to the setting, context, personal involvement and timing,  
among other dynamic variables". The opposite would certainly not be  
best practice. It might be better to this best practice as a tool kit  
of frequently used tools/methods that a craftsperson picks from. but  
since the profession of studying situated use is not mature, the  
craftsperson must frequently craft new tools to fit the task at hand.  
For education it is best to teach the apprentice how to use the  
proven useful tools and the skills to develop new tools as needed.

Bryan Heidorn

On Dec 2, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Diane Nahl wrote:

> Brenda's cogent comments are significant because user studies  
> cannot reduced to
> one homogenous group, or blob as the case may be, simply because  
> studying
> people's situated use of systems and information requires methods  
> unique and
> sensitive to the setting, context, personal involvement and timing,  
> among other
> dynamic variables. in addition, creating 'best' lists often  
> constitutes political
> practice much like citing behavior. Aloha, Diane
>
> Dr. Diane Nahl, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
> Information and Computer Sciences Department
> Library and Information Science Program
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