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Investigating design issues in household environments.
  This paper argues that the current involvement of end users in the design of technological artefacts is too superficial. It is common to involve people in requirements generation, but rarely in product inception or design. A study is reported involving five households in central Scotland, who were each visited on three occasions, using a new investigative framework. Illustrative examples are provided of the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used. Despite the latter, it is demonstrated that the general public can both generate and critique design ideas and that valuable contributions to understanding people's relationships with technologies can be expected both from children and from the elderly.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    30 April 2003

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Springer, London

  • DOI:

    10.1007/s10111-002-0116-5

  • ISSN:

    1435-5558

  • Library of Congress:

    QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    004 Data processing & computer science

Citation

Baillie, L., Benyon, D., Macaulay, C., & Petersen, M. G. (2003). Investigating design issues in household environments. Cognition, Technology and Work, 5, 33-43. doi:10.1007/s10111-002-0116-5

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Keywords

Home studies; home workshop; household; technology tour; user-centred design;

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