Configuring user-designer relations : interdisciplinary perspectives
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Configuring user-designer relations : interdisciplinary perspectives
(Computer supported cooperative work)
Springer, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Configuring User-Designer Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Participatory Design: Issues and Approaches in Dynamic Constellations of Use, Design and Research
Design As and For Collaboration: Making Sense of and Supporting Practical Action
User-Designer Relations in Techology Production: The Development and Evaluation of an 'Animator' Tool to Facilitate User Involvement in the Development of Electronic Health Records
Lessons Learnt in Providing Product Designers with User-Participatory Interaction Design Tools
A Break From Novelty: Persistence and Effects of Structural Tensions in Designer-User Relations
Practicalities of Participation: Stakeholder Involvement in an Electronic Patient Records (EPR) Project
Bottom-Up, Top-Down? Connecting Software Architecture Design with Use
Global Software and its Provenance: Generification Work in the Production of Organisational Software Packages
Concluding Remarks
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