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Information Systems Development as an Intellectual Process: Designers’ Perceptions of Users

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Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development

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The modern society is transformed by digital convergence towards a future where technologies embed themselves and disappear into the fabric of everyday life. This ongoing merging of social and technological infrastructures provides and necessitates new possibilities to renovate past notions, models and methods of information systems development (ISD) that accommodates humans as actors within the infra­structure.

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Isomäki, H. (2010). Information Systems Development as an Intellectual Process: Designers’ Perceptions of Users. In: Isomäki, H., Pekkola, S. (eds) Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-347-3_6

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