Who is involved in HCI design?: an activity theoretical perspective
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Hans Kyhlbäck, Berthel Sutter |
| Title: | Who is involved in HCI design?: an activity theoretical perspective |
| Translated title: | Vem är inblandad i MDI-design?: ett verksamhetsteoretiskt perspektiv |
| Conference name: | the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Pagination: | 71 - 79 |
| ISBN: | 1-58113-857-1 |
| Publisher: | ACM New York, NY, USA |
| City: | Tampere, Finland |
| URI/DOI: | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1028014.1028024 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Interaction and System Design (Sektionen för teknik – adv. för interaktion och systemdesign) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | hky@bth.se, bsu@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The aim of the paper is to discuss the conception of design in the field of human-computer interaction. From an activity-theory perspective, three aspects of design issues in HCI are stressed. They are, first, a broader conception of what it means to design and which artefacts are to be designed; second, a more molar unit of analysis than merely the design of the computer system, including an extended time frame for the design process; and, third, taking designers most often neglected, namely the practitioner, seriously. Our method is to take a detailed case study as our point of departure, where the case begets the concepts, and at the same time works as a test bench for the generated ideas. Thus, methodologically we ask what a detailed case might tell about design related to HCI. |
| Summary in Swedish: | kulturhistorisk verksamhetsteori, specifik och allmän design, design, objektorienterad design, sårvård |
| Subject: | Human Work Science\Participatory Design Computer Science\General Nursing & Caring Sciences\General |
| Keywords: | Cultural-historical activity theory, specific and general design, design, object-orientation of design, wound care |
