Abstract
In the past decade human-centeredness has become an important enabling concept in information system development. The fast growth of the Internet and WWW and partial failure of the dot corns has further accelerated development in this area. The need for human-centeredness has been felt in practically all areas of information systems and computer science. These include e-business, intelligent systems (traditional and web-based), software engineering, multimedia data modeling, data mining, enterprise modeling and human-computer interaction. In this chapter we discuss the pragmatic issues leading to human-centeredness in these areas and the enabling theories which are converging towards human-centered system development. These enabling theories include theories in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology and work-oriented design for human-centered e-business system development framework. We conclude the chapter with a discussion section that outlines the foundations of the human-centered system development framework described in the next chapter.
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Khosla, R., Damiani, E., Grosky, W. (2003). Converging Trends Towards Human-Centerednes and Enabling Theories. In: Human-Centered e-Business. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0445-0_3
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