About Us
We are a multidisciplinary (and interdisciplinary) group of researchers
with backgrounds in Computer Science,
Cognitive Science, and Cognitive Psychology. In addition to our home disciplines,
we also draw on work in fields such as anthropology, linguistics, rhetoric,
sociology, and urban design. Our mode of work is best described by the
rubric "design research." That is, we conduct our research by
embodying a variety of claims and conjectures in design prototypes, and
then observing and studying the ways in which the ideas play out in that
context. While some of this work may involve various forms of reflection
and critique familiar to designers, or the genre of "user studies"
familiar to HCI audiences, most of our work proceeds via the creation,
implementation and deployment of working systems to actual work groups.
This is a natural outcome of our interest in supporting social processes:
group-based activity takes weeks to months to coalesce, and the only effective
way we see of studying it is to observe it "in the wild."
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