>
> I've often described how I do what I for a living as "wearing someone
> else's hat" fir a while.
>
> That could be the name. OR...
>
I crowdsourced for names on Twitter over the last couple of days, and many
people continually tried to latch onto terms that already mean other things.
David Malouf, for example, advocated hard for "ethnography", but ethnography
is like sushi — it represents a type, not a specific thing. Lots of people
know what ethnography is, but far fewer seem to know about this particular
approach to doing research. I think it needs a name of its own so that we
can reference it in conversations without having to explain it ("By
ethnography, I mean I actually did the job of a call center employee for a
few days.")
So, out of all that, I started thinking that since "contextual inquiry"
basically means going into someone's context and, well, inquiring, then
"contextual participation" could be an appropriate name, because this
technique means going into someone's context and actually, well,
participating.
Eh?
-r-
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