UX Practitioners' Engagement with Intermediate-Level Knowledge. Gray, C. M & Kou, Y. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, pages 13–17, June, 2017. ACM.
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© 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Scholars have repeatedly called for the knowledge production efforts of the HCI research community to have resonance with the needs of practitioners. These efforts, reified in approaches such as ``implications for design,'' annotated portfolios, and other forms of intermediate-level knowledge have begun to take hold within the research community, yet it is unclear if and how these forms of knowledge are used to actually support user experience (UX) practice. In this study, we analyzed resources shared via URLs that pointed to articles on external websites within a practitioner-focused Reddit community. Using Löwgren's taxonomy of intermediate-level knowledge, we identified the forms of knowledge these resources represent, and use this analysis as a provocation for future exploration into the types of knowledge practitioners desire and use to support their practice.
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  title     = "{UX} Practitioners' Engagement with Intermediate-Level Knowledge",
  author    = "Gray, Colin M and Kou, Yubo",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on
               Designing Interactive Systems",
  publisher = "ACM",
  pages     = "13--17",
  abstract  = "© 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Scholars have
               repeatedly called for the knowledge production efforts of the HCI
               research community to have resonance with the needs of
               practitioners. These efforts, reified in approaches such as
               ``implications for design,'' annotated portfolios, and other
               forms of intermediate-level knowledge have begun to take hold
               within the research community, yet it is unclear if and how these
               forms of knowledge are used to actually support user experience
               (UX) practice. In this study, we analyzed resources shared via
               URLs that pointed to articles on external websites within a
               practitioner-focused Reddit community. Using Löwgren's taxonomy
               of intermediate-level knowledge, we identified the forms of
               knowledge these resources represent, and use this analysis as a
               provocation for future exploration into the types of knowledge
               practitioners desire and use to support their practice.",
  month     =  jun,
  year      =  2017,
  url       = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3064857.3079110",
  keywords  = "Intermediate-level knowledge; Practice-led research; Precedent;
               Reddit; UX practice",
  doi       = "10.1145/3064857.3079110",
  isbn      =  9781450349918
}

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