Coordinating, Contributing, Contesting, Representing: HCI Specialists Surviving Distributed Design

dc.contributor.authorIivari, Netta
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-30T21:34:56Z
dc.date.available2017-08-30T21:34:56Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines distributed design that involved educational science, information and communication technology (ICT) and human–computer interaction (HCI) specialists collaboratively designing a learning application. The design process is characterized by coordinating, contributing, contesting and representing. The HCI specialists “represented the user”, but users remained silent during the design process. The design work was dominated by ‘coordinating’ activity, but also ‘proposing’ and ‘evaluating’ activities were prominent. The educational science specialists were the most active ones in the design discussions, heavily involved in ‘proposing’ and ‘coordinating’ activities. The HCI specialists were involved in those as well, but distinctly contributed through ‘evaluating’ activity. Interestingly, also ‘challenging’ and ‘ignoring’ activities characterized the distributed design process among the educational science specialists and HCI specialists: design emerged as a political, conflictual process. The very limited ICT support for distributed design became also accentuated. This study opens up interesting avenues for future research in this respect.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_13
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-33463-9
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofCOOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems
dc.titleCoordinating, Contributing, Contesting, Representing: HCI Specialists Surviving Distributed Designen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.endPage223
gi.citation.startPage207
gi.conference.date23-27 May 2016
gi.conference.locationTrento, Italy

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