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Faking the real thing? Proxy technology assessment as a method for participative design
Boekbijdrage - Boekhoofdstuk Conferentiebijdrage
When investigating the requirements for the design of an online community application that could enhance the 'sense of community' in an offline community, the common user and context requirements are, in our opinion, unable to map the specific social aspects. However, these are crucial to a community application where one can produce, share and distribute new content. Hence we introduce the 'social requirements', which we formulate through the use of the 'proxy technology assessment' (PTA). With this approach, we provide a selected community with technologies that resemble in different aspects the future technology, to be used in their home environment. The experiences and actions of the users enable the researcher to reflect upon the potential future use and adjust the product development likewise. Doing this co-creation exercise enables us to offer inspiration for a community network site for citizens.
Boek: Designing for Co-designers Workshop held October 1st 2008 in conjunction with the Participatory Design Conference 2008. Bloomington, Indiana.
Jaar van publicatie:2008