Almost two decades ago, I published an article entitled “From Human Factors to Human
Actors”(Bannon, 1991) in the book “Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer …

To create truly human-centered systems, we need to shift the focus of research and design,
to put human actors and the field of practice in which they function at the center of …

An increasingly important task of computer science is to support the analysis and design of
computers as things to learn from, as tools to use in one's work, as media for interacting with …

Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Participatory Design Toni Robertson, Jesper
Simonsen Page 1 3 © 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology DesignIssues: Volume 28 …

ABSTRACT Computer-aided-design(CAD) systems are now used to design all kinds of
artifacts, from jet fighters to works of art. A major challenge in the design of a CAD system …

We deal about the design in human-centered computing. Problem solving often involves
recognizing and fiddling with tacit assumptions. Such realization can often come from seeing …

An increasingly prominent task of computer science is to support the analysis and design of
computers as things to learn from, as tools to use in one's work, as media for interacting with …

The underlying premise of this paper is that the defining constraint in the design of
technology to enable people in different physical spaces to work together is the essential …

In the first decades of computer system development, most users of computer systems were
engineers and programmers, so “user participation” in development was not actively sought …

In the Autumn of 1984, my colleague Pelle Ehn and I went on a trip to the United States to
discuss our experiences from Denmark and Sweden with involving workers in the design of …