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Author:   Eamonn O'Neill
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9781447110729

ISBN 10:   1447110722
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   02 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 1.1 Background.- 1.2 Problem Statement.- 1.3 Research Approach.- 1.4 Results and Contributions Made.- 1.5 Outline of Chapters.- 2: A Longitudinal View on Software Development and Participation.- 2.1 Computer Systems Development: Changing Constraints.- 2.2 Participatory Design.- 2.3 Giving the Users What They Want: Effective HCI.- 2.4 Where Are We Now?.- 2.5 Research Questions Raised.- 3: The Projects and Their Analysis.- 3.1 The Development Method.- 3.2 The Development Projects Studied.- 3.3 Data Available from the Projects.- 3.4 Research Method.- 4: Towards a Theory of User-Developer Cooperation.- 4.1 Developing Interaction Analysis.- 4.2 The Construction of Shared Understandings.- 4.3 Cooperative Development and Common Ground.- 4.4 Conclusion.- 5: Effective Participation: Contributing to Discourse and Artefacts.- 5.1 The Nature of Participation: Contributing to Discourse.- 5.2 Were the Studied Projects Participatory.- 5.3 Effective Participation: Contributing to Artefacts.- 5.4 Conclusion.- 6: User Participation and Software Usability.- 6.1 Evaluating the Software.- 6.2 Summary of the Usability Evaluation Results.- 6.3 Tracing Relationships Between Contributions, Software Features and Usability.- 6.4 Results of Tracing Analysis.- 6.5 Discussion.- 6.6 Conclusion.- 7: Task-Based Cooperative Development: Conclusions.- 7.1 Summary.- 7.2 Lessons and Limitations.- 7.3 Future Work.

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