NDLI: Of Catwalk Technologies and Boundary Creatures

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Adams, Anne Priestnall, Gary
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Researchers designing and deploying technologies in the wild can find it difficult to balance pure innovation with scalable solutions. Tensions often relate to expectations around current and future roles of the technology development. We propose a catwalk technology metaphor where researchers as boundary creatures focus on innovation whilst providing links to prêt-à-porter (ready to wear) developments. Evidence from 140 participants, within three “in-the-wild” field-based learning case studies (for mobile, distributed, sensor and augmented reality systems), conceptualise the researchers’ “boundary creature” role in managing design process tensions. Stakeholders, including participants, expected the research projects to produce ready to wear (prêt-à-porter) boundary objects for current practices even when researchers sought to take catwalk approaches by innovating technologies and changing practices. The researcher design role (RDR) model articulates researchers’ narratives with the design team, stakeholders and users around what is innovated (e.g., technology, activities) and how the intervention changes or sustains current practices.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	34
Page Count	34
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10730516
e-ISSN	15577325
DOI	10.1145/2491500.2491503
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	3
Journal	ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2013-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Researchers’ role Boundary creatures Catwalk technology Innovation design Scalability
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Human-Computer Interaction

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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