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The biography of participation

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While it is an overall understanding that user participation is important in the design of new information systems, it is still an open question how to best organize participation in large-scale development projects. Based on an ethnographic-inspired study of a large-scale Electronic Patient Record project, this paper explores this issue in detail. By applying the Biography of Artefacts and Practices perspective, we identify three different "moments" of participation in the project so far. We argue that it is necessary to analyze development processes over time and place to understand the varying nature of participation

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PDC '14: Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts - Volume 2
October 2014
278 pages
ISBN:9781450332149
DOI:10.1145/2662155
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Published: 06 October 2014

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  1. design
  2. electronic patient records
  3. evolving
  4. user participation

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PDC '14: Participatory Design Conference
October 6 - 10, 2014
Windhoek, Namibia

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