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Yours, mine, and ours: Connecting ourselves and the communities we belong toKeynote, Usability Professionals' Association, June 2004

Yours, mine, and ours –Connecting ourselves and the communities we belong to

Janice (Ginny) Redish© 2004, Ginny Redish

© 2004, Ginny Redish

Topics for the talkDefinitionsHow multi-community we each areA bit of historySome characteristics of communitiesLanguage / communicationConnections




A group of individuals with awareness of some unifying trait

The people living in a particular place and usually linked by common interests

A group sharing interests or beliefs

Community


A community is a group of people who share common interests, activities, and initiatives; who communicate regularly; and who derive benefit from their association.

Community




Online CommunityPeople

Purpose

Policies

Computer systems

Jenny PreeceOnline CommunitiesWiley, 2000.


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UTESTAccessibility

UPA

DC

STC

U SIG

DCCHIDC




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Linguists


Bethesda, MD

Ethnic / religious

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Physicists




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UTESTAccessibility

UPA

DC

STC

U SIG

DCCHIDC

Bethesda, MD

Ethnic / religious

Linguists

Physicists

Ginny Redish





John Seely Brown and Paul DuguidThe Social Life of InformationHarvard Business School Press, 2000




Inclusionary –Open, welcoming

Exclusionary –Closed


http://www.upassoc.org/about_upa/Figure by Whitney Quesenbery




He said….Then she said…

He goes….Then she goes…






http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/onderwijs/multimedia/mmc/local/incca/images/interviews.jpg http://www.cjolson.com/Usability.htm

C J Olson Market Research CompanyMinneapolis

That's Not What I Meant!

Deborah Tannen




Getting inside others' worlds

Managers

Press Executives

Policy-Makers

Usability


Understanding ourselvesand our colleagues

I AP LU I D

UThe whole process

PLThe whole process

IDThe whole process

IAThe whole process




Connecting communities:Reaching outTeachingDrawing others in


Dr. Janice (Ginny) RedishRedish & Associates, Inc.+1 301 229 [email protected]

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