Configuring User-Designer Relations Interdisciplinary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Büscher, Monika (Editor), Slack, Roger (Editor), Rouncefield, Mark (Editor), Procter, Rob (Editor), Hartswood, Mark (Editor), Voss, Alex (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

‘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...

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 Technology 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 User–Designer Relations
• Practicalities of Participation: Stakeholder Involvement in an Electronic Patient Records 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.