This paper surveys the current status of second generation HCI theory, faced with the
challenges brought to HCI by the so-called third wave. In the third wave, the use context and …

Effective and efficient approaches are required in order to develop and maintain cultural
heritage applications and services that meet user requirements and expectations. This is …

Meta-design of socio-technical systems complies with the need to integrate two types of
structures and processes: technical systems, which are engineered to provide anticipatable …

This paper is about the development of systems whose end users are professional people
working in a specific domain (eg, medicine, geology, mechanical engineering); they are …

Abstract Participatory Design, User-Centered Design, People Centered Design, User-
oriented Design, Hu-man-Centered Design, Contextual Design, Co-design, Cooperative …

Component technologies are perceived as an important means to keep software
architectures flexible. Flexibility offered by component technologies typically addresses …

By the term'professional end user developers' we mean people such as research scientists
who work in highly technical, knowledge-rich domains and who develop software in order to …

This thesis contributes to the field of collaborative information systems and Computer-
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It extends the notion of technological support for …

Previous efforts in end-user development have focused on facilitating the mechanics of
learning programming, leaving aside social and cultural factors equally important in getting …

In our Age of exponential technological advance, recent developments are determining an
evolution of end users from passive information consumers into information producers …