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Configuring User-Designer Relations

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction: Configuring User-Designer Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    • Alex Voss, Mark Hartswood, Rob Procter, Roger Slack, Monika Büscher, Mark Rouncefield
    Pages 1-11
  3. Participatory Design: Issues and Approaches in Dynamic Constellations of Use, Design, and Research

    • Bettina Törpel, Alex Voss, Mark Hartswood, Rob Procter
    Pages 13-29
  4. Design as and for Collaboration: Making Sense of and Supporting Practical Action

    • Alex Voss, Rob Procter, Roger Slack, Mark Hartswood, Mark Rouncefield
    Pages 31-58
  5. Bottom-up, Top-down? Connecting Software Architecture Design with Use

    • Monika Büscher, Michael Christensen, Klaus Marius Hansen, Preben Mogensen, Dan Shapiro
    Pages 157-191
  6. Concluding Remarks

    • Rob Procter, Mark Hartswood, Alex Voss, Roger Slack, Mark Rouncefield, Monika Büscher
    Pages 219-232
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 233-235

About this book

‘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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Configuring User-Designer Relations

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

  • Editors: Monika Büscher, Roger Slack, Mark Rouncefield, Rob Procter, Mark Hartswood, Alex Voss

  • Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-925-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-924-8Published: 27 November 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-678-8Published: 21 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-925-5Published: 29 April 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1496

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 246

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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