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|Abstract=Service technicians in the field often come across difficult service problems that are new to them. They have a large number of resources that they can draw on to deal with such problems, including both people and documents. We have undertaken a detailed study of technicians' everyday work, and have discovered two distinct types of information use, reflecting two different problem-solving practices. The less frequently used problem-solving practice is instruction following, where technicians follow company-documented Repair Analysis Procedures (RAPs). The second, more common practice is gleaning, where the information is gathered from many sources including other technicians and informal tips, which are documents written by technicians describing their invented solutions to hard service problems. Our observations show how the informational and interface affordances of the system for accessing the tips support their easy incorporation into the gleaning approach for problem solving in difficult cases. We also recommend ways that RAPs can be augmented to provide affordances for gleaning, and more effective instruction following.
Service technicians in the field often come across difficult
 
service problems that are new to them. They have a large
 
number of resources that they can draw on to deal with
 
such problems, including both people and documents. We
 
have undertaken a detailed study of technicians’ everyday
 
work, and have discovered two distinct types of
 
information use, reflecting two different problem-solving
 
practices. The less frequently used problem-solving practice
 
is instruction following, where technicians follow
 
company-documented Repair Analysis Procedures (RAPs).
 
The second, more common practice is gleaning, where the
 
information is gathered from many sources æ  including
 
other technicians and informal tips, which are documents
 
written by technicians describing their invented solutions
 
to hard service problems. Our observations show how the
 
informational and interface affordances of the system for
 
accessing the tips support their easy incorporation into the
 
gleaning approach for problem solving in difficult cases.
 
We also recommend ways that RAPs can be augmented to
 
provide affordances for gleaning, and more effective
 
instruction following.
 
 
}}
 
}}

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Yamauchi-etal2003
BibType INPROCEEDINGS
Key Yamauchi-etal2003
Author(s) Yutaka Yamauchi, Jack Whalen, Daniel G. Bobrow
Title Information use of service technicians in difficult cases
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Tag(s) EMCA, Workplace studies, Information Use, Technology, Instructions
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Year 2003
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Journal CHI'03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Pages 81–88
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DOI 10.1145/642611.642627
ISBN 1-58113-630-7
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Abstract

Service technicians in the field often come across difficult service problems that are new to them. They have a large number of resources that they can draw on to deal with such problems, including both people and documents. We have undertaken a detailed study of technicians' everyday work, and have discovered two distinct types of information use, reflecting two different problem-solving practices. The less frequently used problem-solving practice is instruction following, where technicians follow company-documented Repair Analysis Procedures (RAPs). The second, more common practice is gleaning, where the information is gathered from many sources — including other technicians and informal tips, which are documents written by technicians describing their invented solutions to hard service problems. Our observations show how the informational and interface affordances of the system for accessing the tips support their easy incorporation into the gleaning approach for problem solving in difficult cases. We also recommend ways that RAPs can be augmented to provide affordances for gleaning, and more effective instruction following.

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