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“Human Crafters” Once again: Supporting Users as Designers in Continuous Co-design

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2013)

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Designers can never anticipate all future uses of their system. Meta-design theory emphasizes that systems should therefore be designed to adapt to future conditions in the hands of end users. As our technological environments increase in complexity, designers must provide the flexibility for users to shape their technologies. This paper describes a series of experiments, from a laboratory study to a digital library design exercise, exploring the use of meta-design inspired guidelines as design heuristics in an iterative, participatory design process. The meta-design inspired guidelines were found to help designers and end users shift the types of design ideas generated towards building features supporting end-user customization and modification in use. While true meta-design systems are highly complex, we intend to demonstrate that “discount” methods at design-time can help to shift design thinking towards future modifications in the hands of end users and that such methods have application in real-world contexts.

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pa, 19104, USA

    Monica Maceli & Michael E. Atwood

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  1. IT University of Copenhagen, 2300, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Yvonne Dittrich

  2. Oregon State University, 97331-5501, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Margaret Burnett

  3. InterMedia, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway

    Anders Mørch

  4. University of California, 92697-3440, Irvine, CA, USA

    David Redmiles

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Maceli, M., Atwood, M.E. (2013). “Human Crafters” Once again: Supporting Users as Designers in Continuous Co-design. In: Dittrich, Y., Burnett, M., Mørch, A., Redmiles, D. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_3

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