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Studying appropriation of everyday technologies: a cognitive approach

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The ways in which users appropriate uses of technology - or invent new ones - have attracted interest in CSCW-oriented research, but much less has been written on its cognitive foundations, although concepts such as practical problem-solving, perception, and action are central to its understanding. I attempt to address this gap here by triangulating the phenomenon both theoretically and methodologically. In this paper, a reflection of the process provides a starting point for a study with a more focused research question.

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CHI EA '09: CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2009
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DOI:10.1145/1520340
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