Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab

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This edited collection opens up new intellectual territories and articulates the ways in which academics are theorising and practicing new forms of research in ‘wild’ contexts. Many researchers are choosing to leave the familiarity of their laboratory-based settings in order to pursue in-situ studies ‘in the wild’ that can help them to better understand the implications of their work in real-world settings. This has naturally led to ethical, philosophical and practical reappraisals with regard to the taken for granted lab-based modus operandi of scientific, cultural and design-based ways of working. This evolving movement has led to a series of critical debates opening up around the nature of research in the wild, but up until now these debates have not been drawn together in a coherent way that could be useful in an academic context. The book brings together applied, methodological and theoretical perspectives relating to this subject area, and provides a platform and a source of reference material for researchers, students and academics to base their work on. Cutting across multiple disciplines relating to philosophy, sociology, ethnography, design, human–computer interaction, science, history and critical theory, this timely collection appeals to a broad range of academics in varying fields of research. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Research ‘In the Wild’ (Alan Chamberlain, Andy Crabtree)....Pages 1-6 Step by Step Research (Alan Dix)....Pages 7-29 “Research in the Wild”: Approaches to Understanding the Unremarkable as a Resource for Design (Andy Crabtree, Peter Tolmie, Alan Chamberlain)....Pages 31-53 Deeper into the Wild: Technology Co-creation Across Corporate Boundaries (Tommaso Colombino, Jutta Willamowski, Antonietta Grasso, Benjamin V. Hanrahan)....Pages 55-71 HCI in the Wild Mêlée of Office Life—Explorations in Breaching the PC Data Store (Richard Harper, Siân Lindley, Richard Banks, Phil Gosset, Gavin Smyth)....Pages 73-92 Supporting Shared Sense of History Within a Rural Village Community (Keith Cheverst, Nick Taylor, Trien Do)....Pages 93-113 Community-University Research: A Warts and All Account (Jon Whittle, Maria Angela Ferrario, Will Simm)....Pages 115-147 Ethics and Consent in the (Sociotechnical) Wild (Ewa Luger, Tom Rodden)....Pages 149-172 Practical Ethics (Nick Race, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Roger Slack)....Pages 173-193 Orienting to the Wild (Peter Tolmie)....Pages 195-235