Shoppers and Tailors: Participative Practices in Small Australian Design Companies

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 205-221

  Robertson, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Participative practices; Participatory Design; Shopping; Small companies; Tailoring; Visual designers; Workplace democracy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIAN DESIGN COMPANIES; PARTICIPATIVE PRACTICES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; VISUAL DESIGNERS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0031645198     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008626803428     Document Type: Article

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