| Title | Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Authors | R. Geiger, Stuart, and David Ribes |
| Abstract | We detail the methodology of 'trace ethnography', which combines the richness of participant- observation with the wealth of data in logs so as to reconstruct patterns and practices of users in distributed sociotechnical systems. Trace ethnography is a flexible, powerful technique that is able to capture many distributed phenomena that are otherwise difficult to study. Our approach integrates and extends a number of longstanding techniques across the social and computational sciences, and can be combined with other methods to provide rich descriptions of collaboration and organization. |
| DOI | 10.1109/HICSS.2011.455 |
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