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Articles Tagged: Ethnographic studies

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Designing self-monitoring data for chronic care

When a self-monitoring tool is developed and implemented in chronic care nurses' work, it changes the way nurses accomplish their work, creating new requirements. This article is based on a design ethnographic study that helps us understand the implications of these changes.

By Kateřina Černá, April 2020

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The context of on-demand work

SECTION: Features: On demand labor

The context of on-demand work

Two years of ethnographic fieldwork, in the U.S. and India, together with rich quantitative data, shine light on the world of on-demand work invisible to many of us, yet core to the functioning of the Internet and the future of automation.

By Niloufar Salehi, December 2016

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