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BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Designing for appropriation
Ethnographies often show that users appropriate and adapt technology in ways never envisaged by the designers, or even deliberately subverting the designers’ intentions. As desi...
Alan J. Dix
ECIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Completing design in use: closing the appropriation cycle
Users appropriate a technology innovation as they adapt and adapt to its capabilities. This paper argues that the appropriation of technology innovations
Jennie Carroll
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 22 hour ago
Investigating an appropriate design for personal firewalls
Personal firewalls are an important aspect of security for home computer users, but little attention has been given to their usability. We conducted semi-structured interviews to ...
Fahimeh Raja, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov,...
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The appropriateness of Swedish municipality web site designs
In this paper, the results of a front-page genre analysis of 290 Swedish municipality Web sites are presented, and the appropriateness of the identified design solutions are discu...
Emma Eliason, Jonas Lundberg
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing technology for community appropriation
Wendy March, Margot Jacobs, Tony Salvador