Configuring User-Designer Relations Interdisciplinary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: B<U+00fc>scher, Monika. (Editor), Slack, Roger. (Editor), Rouncefield, Mark. (Editor), Procter, Rob. (Editor), Hartswood, Mark. (Editor), Voss, Alex. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-925-5

<U+0018>User-designer relations<U+0019> 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 s...

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.