Taking video beyond ‘hard data’in user centred design

In this paper, we discuss how the use of video in e.g. ethnographically inspired fieldwork can gain from looking at video as a design material rather than as 'hard data'. The participatory nature of the video media is emphasised, and co-authoring is suggested to be potentially fruitful when design teams work with video. The paper introduces four cases, which suggests various ways of working with video as a design material