Browse Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship - Information Sciences by Author "Floyd, Ingbert R."

  • Infrastructures From the Bottom-Up and the Top-Down: Can They Meet in the Middle? 
    Twidale, Michael B.; Floyd, Ingbert R. (2008)
    Based on a study of participatory design in the development of cyberinfrastructure involving the rapid composition of open source software and web services, we consider cases where researchers create their own ad hoc ...

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  • Learning Design from Emergent Co-Design: Observed Practices and Future Directions 
    Floyd, Ingbert R.; Twidale, Michael B. (2008)
    In everyday work environments, systems for work evolve constantly in response to changing environments, the need to overcome technical and social obstacles, or out of the desire by individuals to try something new or ...

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  • Mapping the Design Space of Design Education in iSchools 
    Jones, M. Cameron; Floyd, Ingbert R.; Twidale, Michael B.; Adamczyk, Piotr D. (2008)
    iSchools have a well-established reputation for rigorous analysis, applying a range of multidisciplinary methods. However, increasingly many of us are teaching design elements as well as doing design in our research. We ...

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  • Patchwork Prototyping: A Rapid Prototyping Technique That Harnesses the Power of Open-Source Software 
    Jones, M. Cameron; Floyd, Ingbert R.; Twidale, Michael B. (2007)
    This chapter explores the concept of patchwork prototyping - the combining of open source software applications to rapidly create a rudimentary but fully functional prototype that can be used and hence evaluated in real ...

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  • Resolving Incommensurable Debates: A Preliminary Identification of Persona Kinds, Attributes, and Characteristics 
    Floyd, Ingbert R.; Jones, M. Cameron; Twidale, Michael B. (Taylor & Francis, 2008)
    Persona-based design (PBD) has become a popular method for enabling design teams to reason and communicate about user centered design issues and trade-offs. There is a growing body of literature that describes different ...

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  • The Science of Socio-Technical Systems in iSchools 
    Goggins, Sean P.; Floyd, Ingbert R.; Grudin, Jonathan; Sawyer, Steve; Erickson, Ingrid; Dabbish, Laura; Reddy, Madhu C.; Ribes, David (2009)
    This workshop builds on and extends an effort begun in 2005 that led to the 2008 Summer Research Institute of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST). This Research Institute, supported by the ...

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  • Teaching Design with Personas 
    Jones, M. Cameron; Floyd, Ingbert R.; Twidale, Michael B. (2008)
    The paper explores the effectiveness of persona-based design methods in HCI education. We describe the experiences of our students in learning, practicing, and using personas in a number of design contexts. From these ...

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  • Web Mash-ups and Patchwork Prototyping: User-driven technological innovation with Web 2.0 and Open Source Software 
    Floyd, Ingbert R.; Jones, M. Cameron; Rathi, Dinesh; Twidale, Michael B. (IEEE, 2007-01)
    The recent emergence of web mash-ups and open source software is driving the development of new practices in software and systems development. In this paper we explore novel practices of user-driven innovation through an ...

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  • What Exactly is an Item in the Digital World? 
    Floyd, Ingbert R.; Renear, Allen H. (The American Society for Information Science & Technology, 2007-10)
    IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is a model of the bibliographic universe. Although initially its application to the digital world appears to be straightforward, upon closer examination puzzles ...

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