The Voices of Design
Discourse in Participatory Information System Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18976299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toomas Timpka (0000-0001-6049-5402, corresponding author), Cecelia Sjoberg |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 185-202 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mind Culture and Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-9039 • E-ISSN: 1532-7884 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327884mca0303_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2016663751 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
There is a lack of knowledge about how participation in information system design is built in practice and, particularly, about the interaction taking place within multi-disciplinary design groups. One way to structure participatory design processes has been by the introduction of rules for a "democratic dialogue." The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamics of small-group design meetings in which a set of rules aimed at leveling the possibility for access and display of information were used. Starting from a grounded theory method, a descriptive model was composed by the demarcation of three voices. The voices of participatory design, practice, and engineering were found to express the workplace context, the intentions and actions of the participants, and the influences from the institutions involved, which together constituted the design process. To be able to identify links between small-group discourse and organizational change, a framework for analysis is necessary which makes it possible to follow social structures from the interaction in design groups. This study provides the preliminaries for such a model
Citizen journalism · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Grounded theory · Knowledge management · Participatory design · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Software Engineering Techniques and Practices · Usability and User Interface Design
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |