System Design and Ethnomethodology
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TL;DR
The current state of intellectual relationships between information system design and ethnomethodology (EM), a form of sociological inquiry, is assessed and research in progress is directed at making EM more visible to system designers through an investigation of its phenomenological core using a multi-user domain (MUD) as an explicating device.
Abstract
This paper assesses the current state of intellectual relationships between information system design and ethnomethodology (EM), a form of sociological inquiry. Attention is drawn to an apparent trade off that arises between (a) seeking to make EM more visible to the system designer, and (b) seeking to manage the devotion of time in getting to know one anothers way of working. Possible limitations to contributions from EM to the development of technomethodology, an information systems sub-speciality, are examined. This opens up new areas of co-operative research between system design and EM as a phenomenological approach. Research in progress is directed at making EM more visible to system designers through an investigation of its phenomenological core using a multi-user domain (MUD) as an explicating device.