Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies

Jesper Simonsen; Morten Hertzum; Jørgen Lerche Nielsen; Søren Riis

doi:10.1145/2686612.2686682

Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies

Jesper Simonsen, Morten Hertzum, Jørgen Lerche Nielsen, Søren Riis

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Abstract

Design is increasingly becoming a part of the university curriculum and research agenda. A theory about the pro-cess and practice of design might be important to establish design as a main subject at universities. We believe it is in the interest of many design communities – not least the Participatory Design (PD) community – to engage in theorizing design, on the basis of our understanding of design and design practices. This theory could be positioned as an alternative to other attempts to theorize design, for example the influential efforts of the Information Systems (IS) community. We urge the PD community to engage in collective theory building, and we present a framework intended to support our shared reflections on the design of human technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures : the Future of Design
Number of pages	4
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2 Dec 2014
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0653-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686682
Publication status	Published - 2 Dec 2014
Event	OzCHI2014: Designing Futures: The Future of Design - The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Duration: 2 Dec 2014 → 5 Dec 2014 http://www.ozchi.org/

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Conference	OzCHI2014
Location	The University of Technology
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	02/12/2014 → 05/12/2014
Internet address	http://www.ozchi.org/

Keywords

framework
epistemology
theory
Design

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Simonsen, J., Svabo, C., Strandvad, S. M., Samson, K., Hertzum, M., Hansen, O. E., Søndergård, B., Kristiansen, E., Christrup, H., Pries-Heje, J., Nielsen, J. L., Bødker, K., Pfeiffer Pedersen, L., Frølunde, L., Rosendahl, M., Neisig, M., Frandsen, M. S., Juul, N. C., Jørgensen, N., Lybæk, R., Groth, S. K., Christensen, T. B., Andreasen, T., Kjær, T., Kensing, F., Venable, J., Birch Andreasen, L., Baskerville, R. & Gudiksen, S.
01/01/2013 → 01/10/2014
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Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies. / Simonsen, Jesper ; Hertzum, Morten ; Nielsen, Jørgen Lerche et al.
OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2014.

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