Building boundaries on Boundary Objects: a field study of a Ubicomp tool in a Design Studio

Vyas, Dhaval and Nijholt, Anton (2010) Building boundaries on Boundary Objects: a field study of a Ubicomp tool in a Design Studio. International Reports on Socio-Informatics, 7 (1). pp. 282-299. ISSN 1861-4280

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Abstract:	In this paper, we provide the results of a field study of a Ubicomp system called CAM (Cooperative Artefact Memory) in a Product Design studio. CAM is a mobile-tagging based messaging system that allows designers to store relevant information onto their design artefacts in the form of messages, annotations and external web links. From our field study results, we observe that the use of CAM adds another shared ‘space’ onto these design artefacts – that are in their natural settings boundary objects themselves. In the paper, we provide several examples from the field illustrating how CAM helps in the design process.
Item Type:	Article
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72487
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