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Configuring User-Designer Relations

Author : Alex Voss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846289254
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Configuring User-Designer Relations written by Alex Voss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘User-designer relations’ concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products - the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of these relations that IT products are realised. Although it has generally been accepted that achieving better user-designer relations will improve the quality of IT products, there has been little consensus on how this might be achieved. This book aims to deepen our understanding of the relationships between users and designers both as they emerge in the wild and as a consequence of our attempts to intervene. Through a series of case studies the book juxtaposes in-depth explorations of different perspectives and approaches to thinking about - and doing - user-designer relations, considering important implications for design and computer science more generally.

Health Technology Development and Use

Author : Sampsa Hyysalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113695337X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Health Technology Development and Use written by Sampsa Hyysalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses, how these are developed into products and embedded in health care practices, and how the form and impact of these technologies then evolves through several rounds of design and deployment across different types of organizations. Examining these processes through three case studies of health care innovations, these studies reveal a blind spot in extant research on development-use relations. The majority of studies have examined shorter ‘episodes’: moments within particular design projects, implementation processes, usability evaluations, and human-machine interactions. Studies with longer time-frames have resorted to a relatively coarse ‘grain-size’ of analysis and hence lost sight of how the interchange is actually done. As a result there are no social science, information systems, or management texts which comprehensively or adequately address: • how different moments, sites and modes of shaping new technology determine the evolution of new technology; • the detailed mechanisms of learning, interaction, and domination between different actors and technology during these drawn out processes; and • the relationship of technology projects and the professional practices and social imaginations that are associated in technology development, evaluation, and usage. The "biographies of technologies and practices" approach to new technology advanced in this volume offers us urgent new insight to core empirical and theoretical questions about how and where development projects gain their representations of future use and users, how usage is actually designed, how users’ requests and modifications affect designs, and what kind of learning takes place between developers and users in different phases of innovation—all crucial to our understanding and ability to advance new health technology, and innovation more generally.

The New Production of Users

Author : Sampsa Hyysalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317299957
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The New Production of Users written by Sampsa Hyysalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users. How should designers get to know the users’ interests and needs? Who should speak for the users? How may designers collaborate with users and in what ways may users take innovation into their own hands? The New Production of Users offers a rare overview of these issues. It traces the history of designer-user relations from the era of mass production to the present days. Its focus lies in elaborating the currently emerging strategies and approaches to user involvement in business and citizen contexts. It analyses the challenges in the practical collaborations between designers and users, and it investigates a number of cases, where groups of users collectively took charge of innovation. In addition to a number of new case studies, the book provides a thorough account of theories of user involvement as well as and offers further developments to these theories. As a part of this, the book relates to the wide spectrum of fields currently associated with user involvement, such as user-centered design, participatory design, user innovation, open source software, cocreation and peer production. Exploring the nexus between users and designers, between efforts to democratize innovation and to mobilize users for commercial purposes, this multi-disciplinary book will be of great interest to academics, policy makers and practitioners in fields such as Innovation Studies, Innovation Policy, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Studies, Consumption studies, Marketing, e-commerce, Media Studies as well as Design research.

Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development

Author : Pa?kowska, Ma?gorzata
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466643145
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development written by Pa?kowska, Ma?gorzata and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separation distinction between the roles of the producer and consumer has become blurred with the development of new science and technologies enabling the emergence of the prosumer, or the active consumer. In the IT sector, the role of the end-user has broadened to include innovation and development practices in addition to the traditional consumer activities. As such, businesses must create opportunities for product development and innovation by the consumers. Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development investigates the latest empirical research on active use of information technology resources, enabling users with new methodologies, tools, and opportunities to impact application development processes. The objective of this reference book is to mobilize end-users to take a more active role in their own IT solutions, which will in turn assist in the development of best practices in IT at all levels.

Design Things

Author : Thomas Binder
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262297329
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Design Things written by Thomas Binder and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things. Design Things offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice, envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic and democratic practices and values. The authors of Design Things look at design practice as a mode of inquiry that involves people, space, artifacts, materials, and aesthetic experience, following the process of transformation from a design concept to a thing. Design Things, which grew out of the Atelier (Architecture and Technology for Inspirational Living) research project, goes beyond the making of a single object to view design projects as sociomaterial assemblies of humans and artifacts—“design things.” The book offers both theoretical and practical perspectives, providing empirical support for the authors' conceptual framework with field projects, case studies, and examples from professional practice. The authors examine the dynamics of the design process; the multiple transformations of the object of design; metamorphing, performing, and taking place as design strategies; the concept of the design space as “emerging landscapes”; the relation between design and use; and the design of controversial things.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition

Author : Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466658894
Total Pages : 7972 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition written by Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 7972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This 10-volume compilation of authoritative, research-based articles contributed by thousands of researchers and experts from all over the world emphasized modern issues and the presentation of potential opportunities, prospective solutions, and future directions in the field of information science and technology"--Provided by publisher.

How Users Matter

Author : Nelly Oudshoorn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262651092
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book How Users Matter written by Nelly Oudshoorn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Users have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, including a feminist focus on users and use (in place of the traditional emphasis on men and machines), concepts from semiotics, and the cultural studies view of consumption as a cultural activity, these essays examine what users do with technology and, in turn, what technology does to users. The contributors consider how users consume, modify, domesticate, design, reconfigure, and resist technological development—and how users are defined and transformed by technology. The essays in part I show that resistance to and non-use of a technology can be a crucial factor in the eventual modification and improvement of that technology; examples considered include the introduction of the telephone into rural America and the influence of non-users of the Internet. The essays in part II look at advocacy groups and the many kinds of users they represent, particularly in the context of health care and clinical testing. The essays in part III examine the role of users in different phases of the design, testing, and selling of technology. Included here is an enlightening account of one company's design process for men's and women's shavers, which resulted in a "Ladyshave" for users assumed to be technophobes. Taken together, the essays in How Users Matter show that any understanding of users must take into consideration the multiplicity of roles they play—and that the conventional distinction between users and producers is largely artificial.

The Digitalization of Health Care

Author : Ian P. McLoughlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198744137
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Digitalization of Health Care written by Ian P. McLoughlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores two controversial examples of attempts to implement national shareable electronic health record systems. It explains why implementing electronic health records has been so fraught with difficulties and argues that the moral basis of recording and sharing heath data needs to be re-thought.

World Wide Research

Author : William H. Dutton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262288311
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book World Wide Research written by William H. Dutton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines. Advances in information and communication technology are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted across all disciplines. The use of increasingly powerful and versatile computer-based and networked systems promises to change research activity as profoundly as the mobile phone, the Internet, and email have changed everyday life. This book offers a comprehensive and accessible view of the use of these new approaches—called “e-Research”—and their ethical, legal, and institutional implications. The contributors, leading scholars from a range of disciplines, focus on how e-Research is reshaping not only how research is done but also, and more important, its outcomes. By anchoring their discussion in specific examples and case studies, they identify and analyze a promising set of practical developments and results associated with e-Research innovations. The contributors, who include Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Borgman, Paul Edwards, Tim Berners-Lee, and Hal Abelson, explain why and how e-Research activity can reconfigure access to networks of information, expertise, and experience, changing what researchers observe, with whom they collaborate, how they share information, what methods they use to report their findings, and what knowledge is required to do this. They discuss both the means of e-Research (new research-centered computational networks) and its purpose (to improve the quality of world-wide research).

Design to Manufacture of Complex Building Envelopes

Author : Alamir Mohsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658302046
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Design to Manufacture of Complex Building Envelopes written by Alamir Mohsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses a new method for the design and engineering of complex façades. Based on the file-to-factory concept, the method combines parametric design approaches and additive manufacturing. Parametric design and additive manufacturing are both growing trends that open up new possibilities. Parametric design approaches change how planners / designers perceive building details. Further, new engineering concepts are needed to cope with the increasing complexity of architectural geometries due to the rapid developments in areas such as façade systems, modeling software and digital manufacturing techniques.

Design Research

Author : Jesper Simonsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135145938
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Design Research written by Jesper Simonsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can interdisciplinary scientific knowledge be utilized in design in ways that are ethical, creative, helpful for practitioners and others and make extraordinary results possible? This book presents work by leading scholars and practitioners, clarifying common aspects of a new and emerging design research field.

Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social Study of Information Systems

Author : Viscusi, Gianluigi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466603046
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social Study of Information Systems written by Viscusi, Gianluigi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a new look at the latest research and critical issues within the field of information systems by creating solid theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical findings of social developments"--

Ambient Intelligence

Author : Bernt Schiele
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540766529
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Ambient Intelligence written by Bernt Schiele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in November 2007. The 17 revised full papers presented together with five research reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections. The book is rounded off by a section on case studies and lessons learned, presenting a high level selection of current research reports and papers.

Future-Proofing

Author : Carla Simone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198862504
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Future-Proofing written by Carla Simone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainability is crucial for the future of our societies. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving people's work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. The book documents the experiences made by several leading research groups in Europe, North America and South Africa, describing their efforts to achieve sustainable design results, the difficulties that barred the way but also the strategies they adopted to achieve the goal of sustainability. The analysis of this rich empirical material helps thinking about how to more systematically address and possibly overcome the impediments to achieving a design result that is sustainable in practice. It points at the importance of considering the socio-technical nature of innovation, to focus on the relationship between ownership, appropriation and learning early on in a project, and to strive not only for technological flexibility but take care of issues of maintenance repair in designing computer-support. The book discusses the changes that would be necessary to make the main stakeholders in IT design more open to creating environments for sustainable innovation. The examples discussed in this book and their analysis can inspire researchers, institutions, managers, ICT professionals and educators to promote the goal of sustainable design results and increase the overall awareness of its strategic relevance"--

Socio-informatics

Author : Volker Wulf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198733240
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Socio-informatics written by Volker Wulf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how computer systems might be designed to serve their users rather better. It deals with how to study the natural behaviour of users to see how computer systems might best help them, and how one might also involve them in the design of computer systems that will assist them in their everyday practices.

Citizen Activities in Energy Transition

Author : Sampsa Hyysalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000393992
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Activities in Energy Transition written by Sampsa Hyysalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption, intermediation, market creation, and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links research in innovation studies, sustainability transitions, and science and technology studies, and builds a new approach for the study of user contributions to innovation and sociotechnical change. Citizen Activities in Energy Transition gives detailed and empirically grounded overall appraisal of citizens’ active technological engagement in the current energy transition, in an era when Internet connectivity has given rise to important new forms of citizen communities and interactions. It elaborates a new way to study users in sociotechnical change through long-term ethnographic and historical research and reports its deployment in a major, decade-long line of investigation on user activities in small-scale renewables, addressing user contributions from the early years to the late proliferation stages of small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-RETs). It offers a much-needed empirical and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of the activities in which users are engaged over the course of sociotechnical change, including innovation, adoption, adjustment, intermediation, community building, digital communities, market creation, and legitimacy creation. This work is a must-read for those seeking to understand the role of users in innovation, energy systems change and the significance of new digital communities in present and future sociotechnical change. Academics, policymakers, and managers are given a new resource to understand the "demand side" of sociotechnical change beyond the patterns of investment, adoption, and social acceptance that have traditionally occupied their attention.

Making & Doing

Author : Gary Downey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262539977
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Making & Doing written by Gary Downey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ten making & doing projects expand STS scholarship through a focus on knowledge expression and knowledge travel in addition to knowledge production. Making & doing projects expand STS scholarship to include the trajectories of STS knowledge flow beyond the boundaries of the field by actively interweaving knowledge expression and travel with knowledge production. In this edited volume, contributors from around the world present and critically assess ten empirical making & doing projects. They recount how their projects advance STS, and describe how they themselves learn from their interlocutors and the settings in which they do and share their STS work. A coda explains how the infrastructures of STS scholarship are broadening to include practices of making & doing. The contributors examine and reflect upon their dilemmas, frustrations, and failures, especially when these generate new practices that might not have occurred had their work not taken the form of making and doing scholarship. While each project raises a distinct set of scholarly issues, all of the projects include practices that express STS knowledge through “STS sensibilities” and attach those sensibilities to practices in empirical fields. The ten projects include one each in Argentina, Taiwan, Canada, and Denmark; two in the US; one in Austria, the UK, and multiple countries in Africa and Asia; one in the US and Latin America; one in the Netherlands and Australia; and one in an international network that includes members from Europe, the Americas, and Australia.