The purpose of this paper is to introduce the motivations behind end user development,
discuss its basic concepts and roots, and review the current state of art. Various approaches …

Coordination mechanisms (CMs) can be defined as any kind of computable construct whose
aim is to organize activities performed by a group of actors that are called to collaborate for …

In its traditional stance, participatory design (PD) is centred on certain work/application
settings and is concerned with the involvement of representative users from these contexts …

This article addresses one of the major end-user software engineering (EUSE) challenges,
namely, how to motivate end users to apply unfamiliar software engineering techniques and …

End-user developers need access to tools and techniques that allow them to create, modify,
and extend software artifacts without programming. Previous research has shown that visual …

Problem solving in groups usually consists of different phases. The quality of the results
highly depends on applying suitable methods (eg, to improve creativity or to support shared …

We propose that sustainable interaction design can benefit from the notion of appropriation-
enabling design in the sense that designing for appropriation can promote renewal and …

To increase modularity, many aspect-oriented programming languages provide a
mechanism based on implicit invocation: An aspect can influence runtime behavior of other …

Society currently lives in a world of tailorable systems in which end-users are able to
transform their working environment while achieving their tasks, day to day and over the …

Taking the International Symposium of End User Development to Copenhagen and
Scandinavia brought it to the origin of the participatory design community. Participatory …