From Ethnography to Design in a Vineyard

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From Ethnography to Designin a Vineyard

Abstract

This paper summarizes the process from ethnographicstudy of a vineyard to concept development and

interaction design for a ubiquitous computing solution.

It provides examples of vineyard interfaces and the

lessons learned that could be generally applied to the

interaction design of ubiquitous systems. These are:

design for multiple perspectives on data, design for

multiple access points, and design for varying levels of

attention.

Keywords

Agriculture, Anthropology, Business Process

Reengineering, Ethnography, Graphic Design,

Interaction Design, Process Improvement, Ubiquitous

Computing, User Experience, User Research, Vineyard,

Viticulture, Wine Making.

Industry/category

Agriculture, Fruit Production, Wholesale, Wine Retail

Project statement

In March 2002, as part of ongoing work exploring the

potential for ubiquitous computing systems in

agricultural and outdoor environments, we embarked

on a project to look at the potential usefulness of

ubiquitous computing to the wine-making industry, with

particular interest in using sensor network technology.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work

for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided thatcopies are not made or distributed for profit or commercialadvantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on

the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on serversor to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or afee. Copyright is held by the author/owner.

Tim Brooke

Intel Corporation,

JF3-377,

2111 NE 25th Avenue

Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA

+1 503.264.8512

[email protected]

Jenna Burrell

Intel Corporation,

JF3-3772111 NE 25

th Avenue

Hillsboro, OR 97124 USA

+1 503. 264.7842

[email protected]

Figure 1: Vineyard. Oregon, USA

©2003 ACM 1-58113-728-1 03/0006 5.00


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