Participatory design: The will to succeed

Critical Computing - Between Sense and Sensibility - Proceedings of the 4th Decennial Aarhus Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 29-38

  Shapiro, Dan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

commercialisation; ethnography in design; large scale information systems; participatory design; politics of information systems; public sector information systems

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIALISATION; EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY; FAILURE RATE; LARGE-SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION; TWO STAGE;

DESIGN; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 58049139024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1094562.1094567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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