TY - GEN
T1 - UX practitioners' engagement with intermediate-level knowledge
AU - Gray, Colin M.
AU - Kou, Yubo
PY - 2017/6/10
Y1 - 2017/6/10
N2 - Scholars have repeatedly called for the knowledge production efforts of the HCI research community to have resonance with the needs of practitioners. These efforts, reified in approaches such as "implications for design," annotated portfolios, and other forms of intermediate-level knowledge have begun to take hold within the research community, yet it is unclear if and how these forms of knowledge are used to actually support user experience (UX) practice. In this study, we analyzed resources shared via URLs that pointed to articles on external websites within a practitioner-focused Reddit community. Using Löwgren's taxonomy of intermediate-level knowledge, we identified the forms of knowledge these resources represent, and use this analysis as a provocation for future exploration into the types of knowledge practitioners desire and use to support their practice.
AB - Scholars have repeatedly called for the knowledge production efforts of the HCI research community to have resonance with the needs of practitioners. These efforts, reified in approaches such as "implications for design," annotated portfolios, and other forms of intermediate-level knowledge have begun to take hold within the research community, yet it is unclear if and how these forms of knowledge are used to actually support user experience (UX) practice. In this study, we analyzed resources shared via URLs that pointed to articles on external websites within a practitioner-focused Reddit community. Using Löwgren's taxonomy of intermediate-level knowledge, we identified the forms of knowledge these resources represent, and use this analysis as a provocation for future exploration into the types of knowledge practitioners desire and use to support their practice.
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U2 - 10.1145/3064857.3079110
DO - 10.1145/3064857.3079110
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85022203448
T3 - DIS 2017 Companion - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
SP - 13
EP - 17
BT - DIS 2017 Companion - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017
Y2 - 10 June 2017 through 14 June 2017
ER -