In lectures and writings in the decades following publication of Studies Ethnomethodology [1967], Harold Garfinkel, founder ethnomethodology, developed what he called a “misreading” phenomenological Aron Gurwitsch, Maurice Merleau-Ponty others. Garfinkel’s included selective creative treatment themes that Gurwitsch drew from Gestalt psychology, such as figure-ground, contexture, phenomenal fiel...

This paper surveys and evaluates techniques for eliciting requirements of computer-based systems, paying particular attention to how they deal with social issues. The methods surveyed include introspection, interviews, questionnaires, and protocol, conversation, interaction, and discourse analyses. Although they are relatively untried in Requirements Engineering, we believe there is much promis...

During the course of this paper we intend to explore some possibilities that relate to ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, reflexive practice and practitioner based research. We intend to explore the way in which conversation analysis may facilitate some objectives and goals of reflexive practice and practitioner based research within professional practice. In order to fulfil this objectiv...

Abstract This article explores the connection between two fields, artificial intelligence (AI) and transhumanist posthumanism. In linking them, author proposes a distinction of "exhaustion/illustration" to extend various discussions what extent AI can learn from human (HI) vice versa. Ethnomethodology, whose aim is study how social members make settings “observable accountable”, may contribute ...

This article introduces a methodology used for designing the online presence of a Swiss SME providing Cloud Services. The Web application used for the purchasing and administration, backed by a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), has been designed to be customer-centric using a combination of different techniques borrowed from the fields of ethnomethodology, service design and user-centered de...