As Hoekman mentioned in page 48 in his book, "UCD include details that aren't actionable and can be a distraction. But the narrow focus of ACD swings the pendulum too far the other way by discounting the circumstances that comprise the user's need for your application, and your application's role in his life at the moment it comes into play." Just by focusing on user-centered design, it is hard to get results that satisfied enough for users. It means that user can't always be correct. Hoekman suggested that situation-centered is the one we should focus to get great application, which is comprised of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Hoekman mentioned that situation-centered idea leads to self-design, which targets yourself as an audience. Hoekman seems to have strong focus in situation-centered than other two, activity-centered and user-centered.
What Hoekman means by a situation-centric approach to research is that a designer makes a direct participation in his own research with imagining the certain situation. For project #2, I could have focused on machine with broader view. I only fixed on a small feature of digital panel, but it was very trivial problem for users. I could imagine more various situations for using this machine.
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