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5.1.3 Work Practice in Research: A Case Study
Author(s) -
Martin Nathaniel G.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2005.tb00702.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , bridge (graph theory) , cluster analysis , computer science , data science , group (periodic table) , knowledge management , engineering , artificial intelligence , medicine , mechanical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry
Work practice analysis is a type of Ethnography that studies individual and group work. It has been developing at Xerox over the past 20 years. Recently, it was applied by a research group studying text mining. It showed flaws in the group's initial understanding of the problem and redirected the group's attention from classification to clustering. In addition, it led to the development of a novel approach to text mining. Further study showed that the novel approach is widely applicable. We describe work practice in general, then provide a case study of the application or work practice analysis to the gathering requirements for text mining. We conclude that work practice analysis in specific helps bridge academic results and industrial practice.