References
Jennifer A. Rode. "Reflexivity in digital anthropology". UIST '11 Proceedings of the 23rd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. ACM New York, NY, USA ©2011.
Author Bios
Jennifer Rode is an assistant professor at Drexel's School of Information. Rode has produced several interface design projects. She received her PhD from the University of California, Irvine.Summary
- Hypothesis - Rode hypothesized that some methods of digital anthropology can be utilized by researchers while conducting field studies.
- Method - This paper did not contain any user studies, and thus no methods were presented.
- Results - The author spent most of this paper describing different methods of ethnographic study, namely Positivist and Reflexivity, where the definitions were from previous research. She then goes on to argue why many of these unused methods could be beneficial in digital research.
- Content -The author discussed the various forms of ethnography, and how reflexivity can help in the design process for HCI.
Discussion
This paper seemed to me to be a lot of explanation for not a lot of concept. It wasn't very concise and the author tended to ramble a bit. It was a bit hard to get through, but had a good overall concept: don't ignore the users you're developing for. However, she had no proof to prove her point, and she had little of her own ideas in the first place. Her main point was that bringing together certain already established methodologies can help aid HCI. 
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