Participatory Design

The voices in this collection are primarily those of researchers and developers concerned with bringing knowledge of technological possibilities to bear on informed and effective system design

Auteur

Schuler, Douglas; Namioka, Aki

Contenu

Contents: L. Suchman, Foreword. Preface. Part I:*Context.*E. Bravo, The Hazards of Leaving Out the Users. F. Emspak, Workers, Unions, and New Technology. J. Greenbaum, A Design of One's Own: Toward Participatory Design in the United States. Part II:*Principles and Issues.*P. Ehn, Scandinavian Design: On Participation and Skill. K. Grønbæk, J. Grudin, S. Bødker, L. Bannon, Achieving Cooperative System Design: Shifting From a Product to a Process Focus. J. Grudin, Obstacles to Participatory Design in Large Product Development Organizations. Part III:*Approaches to Participatory Design.*J. Blomberg, J. Giacomi, A. Mosher, P. Swenton-Wall, Ethnographic Field Methods and Their Relation to Design. S. Bødker, K. Grønbæk, M. Kyng, Cooperative Design: Techniques and Experiences From the Scandinavian Scene. K. Holtzblatt, S. Jones, Contextual Inquiry: A Participatory Technique for System Design. M. Muller, PICTIVE -- Democratizing the Dynamics of the Design Session. C. Allen, Reciprocal Evolution as a Strategy for Integrating Basic Research, Design, and Studies of Work Practice. Part IV:*Case Studies.*E. Mumford, The Participation of Users in Systems Design: An Account of the Origin, Evolution and Use of the ETHICS Method. K. Thoresen, Principles in Practice -- Two Cases of Situated Participatory Design. J. Greenbaum, K.H. Madsen, Small Changes: Starting a Participatory Design Process by Giving Participants a Voice.