Socio-cognitive engineering: A methodology for the design of human-centred technology

Sharples, Mike; Jeffery, N.; Boulay, J. B. H. du; Teather, D.; Teather, B. A.; Boulay, G. H. du

doi:10.1016/s0377-2217(01)00118-7

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“…The project followed a methodology of sociocognitive engineering [11] which aims to analyse the complex interactions between people and computer-based technology and then transform this analysis into usable, useful and desirable socio-technical systems (technology in its social context). The methodology has been successfully applied to the design of a broad range of human centred technologies, including a Writer's Assistant [12] a training system for neuroradiologists [13], and a system to support requirements capture from customers for electronic test equipment.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Learning Resource

Sharples

Corlett

Westmancott

2002

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

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The convergence of mobile communications and handheld computers offers the opportunity to develop technology that will assist individuals and groups to learn anytime, anywhere. We describe the theory-informed design, implementation and evaluation of a handheld learning device. It is intended to support children to capture everyday events such as images, notes and sounds, to relate them to web-based learning resources, to organise these into a visual knowledge map, and to share them with other learners and teachers. A working prototype system, for children aged 9-11, is discussed and evaluated, as an exemplar of personal mobile systems for life-long learning.

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Section: Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Learning Resource

Sharples

Corlett

Westmancott

2002

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

309

128

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“…In this project we will augment this with the socio-cognitive approach proposed by [21]. Unlike similar participatory design methods this explicitly includes a theory-based study into the processes being discussed, and uses this to interpret the tasks being undertaken.…”

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A Research Framework for Engineering Location-Based Poetics

Millard

Hargood

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Narrative &Amp; Hypertext - NHT '15

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Technology has always created new opportunities for storytelling, but in the last few decades the rate of change in technology has accelerated enormously, and our technological platforms have become fluid and uncertain. This is a problem because there is a relationship between the affordances and characteristics of the technology, and the poetics of our storytelling using that technology. In essence, different types of technology are good for telling different types of story in different ways, and yet technology is developed without any sense of its embedded poetics, and writers are left to experiment with the results. For example, location-based systems are now common, and there are many apps that experiment with location and storytelling, but the poetics of location-based narratives are poorly understood, and thus have not informed the development of those apps. In this paper we present a research framework, drawing on techniques from participatory design, UX, and Games Design, for exploring how writers can be involved in the process of building new software and as a result co-create both location-based technology and new location-based narrative forms.

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“…Since the early 1980s (Sharples, 1987), through a series of major projects with industry and academic partners, we have developed and refined a method, named socio-cognitive engineering, for human-centred design of socio-technical systems (Sharples, Jeffery, du Boulay, Teather, Teather, & du Boulay, 2002;Sharples, 2006). Like participatory design and related approaches, socio-cognitive engineering draws on the knowledge of potential users and involves them in the design process.…”

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Future technology workshop: A collaborative method for the design of new learning technologies and activities

Vavoula

Sharples

2007

Computer Supported Learning

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We describe the Future Technology Workshop (FTW), a method whereby people with everyday knowledge or experience in a specific area of the use of technology (such as the use of digital cameras) envision and design the interactions between current and future technology and activity. Through a series of structured workshop sessions they collaborate to envisage future activities related to technology design, build models of the contexts of use for future technologies, act out scenarios of use for their models, re-conceive their scenarios in relation to present-day technologies, list problems with implementing the scenarios, explore the gap between current and future technology and activity, and end by listing requirements for future technology. The method has been used successfully with children and adults to explore new technology-activity systems including interacting with digital photographs and informal science learning.

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Socio-cognitive engineering: A methodology for the design of human-centred technology

Cited by 70 publications

References 12 publications

The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Learning Resource

The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Learning Resource

A Research Framework for Engineering Location-Based Poetics

Future technology workshop: A collaborative method for the design of new learning technologies and activities

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