This paper calls for a re-specification of IT systems design and development practice as
corealisation. Co-realisation is an orientation to technology production that develops out of a …

While user involvement initiatives such as participatory design are welcome, in as much as
they focus on design, they are only capable of advancing user control so far. We argue that …

Objectives: The paper explores possibilities for situating IT design and development work
within the context of use so as to support the co-realisation of technology and 'design in use' …

This paper calls for a respecification of IT systems design and development practice as co-
realization. Co-realization is an orientation to technology production that develops out of a …

User-centred approaches to information systems development presume a particular division
of labour between 'users' and 'designers' and an organisation of the development process in …

This paper critically examines Beyer and Holtzblatt's contextual design methodology. As a
way of addressing what we argue are contextual design's limitations, we propose co …

This paper reports on our experiences of being involved in requirements capture for a
HealthGrid project. Large scale, collaborative projects with multiple partners tend to …

This paper explores the “probe” as a method for enabling the design of technology through
consideration of a particular case. In doing so we explore how systematic the use of the data …

We describe findings from field work at a residential community care facility for ex-psychiatric
hospital patients. The field work focused on distributed care-workers who looked after …

Numerous prescriptions for making IT systems design and development methodologies
more “user-centred” have been put forward in recent years. While such initiatives are …