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Bridging the Ethnography/Design Gap

Simon Johnson at A Journey from Ethnography to Design (2009)

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Projects and resources

  • Environment Agency00:53The project is introduced as work commissioned by the Environment Agency.
  • Check your long-term flood risk00:59The talk opens by describing the Environment Agency's flood risk maps as the troubled predecessor that motivated the new project.
  • Coastal erosion planning data01:37The project is introduced as an attempt to make coastal erosion risk maps public-facing and usable.
  • Google Maps11:44The public participants in the research asked for Google and tried to use it to understand coastal erosion.
  • Silverback11:53The speaker names Silverback as the software used to watch people use the existing service and says it cost about 40 pounds for a licence.
  • OmniGraffle32:08The speaker names OmniGraffle as the program used to flesh out the site's information architecture.

Papers and articles

Concepts

  • Ethnographic study07:07The speaker describes ethnography as immersing yourself in a community's culture, environment, history, books and local news.
  • Coastal erosion terminology13:32The talk says residents did not know terms such as groynes, rock armour and revetments even though they lived on the coast.