Developing a youth-services information system for city and county government: Experiments in user-designer collaboration

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 151, Issue , 2006, Pages 259-264

  Zappen, James P ^a   Adali, Sibel ^b   Harrison, Teresa M ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

City government; Co design; Collaboration; Communication; Cooperative design; County government; Digital government; Information system; Participatory design; User centered design; Youth services

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GOVERNMENT; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; USER-CENTERED DESIGN; YOUTH SERVICES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250696498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146598.1146669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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