Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is
also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and …

As hard as it may be for modern computer users to believe in this era of smartphones,
tablets, and touchscreens, early computers were not interactive. They were used to read files …

This paper considers the potential of using patterns of cooperative interaction to support the
development of general design principles drawn from a range of work settings. It reports on …

This paper describes how different kinds of research activities (theory building and
application, exploratory and experimental studies, prototyping, user testing) are instrumental …

This thesis explores the integration of work practice and system design in deliberating upon
how to increase the sensitivity of system design towards everyday work practice. The attempt …

This paper examines how qualitative research can contribute to the evaluation of medical
information systems. Most qualitative studies of the use of medical computer systems adopt …

We present a field study of an organisation which designs and constructs precision
mechatronic devices, which typically integrate electronics, mechanical assemblies …

Researches in the dependability domain identify various approaches and means
contributing to safetycritical systems dependability (see for example Laprie et al, 1995) …

This paper discusses an ethnographic study of a commercial prototyping software
development project. A distinguishing feature of the development was its concentration in …

Abstract Business Process Reengineering (BPR) offers one potential and increasingly
influential solution to the requirements problem in software engineering by focusing on core …