Investigating design issues in household environments.
Journal Article
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
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 generat...
An investigation into virtual representations of real places.
Conference Proceeding
Arnspang, J., Benyon, D., Fahle, M., Granum, E., Madsen, C., Pajdla, T., …Weinshall, D. (2002)
An investigation into virtual representations of real places. In Proc. Fifth Annual International Workshop on Presence, 66-78
The paper describes the main themes of a recently funded research project under the European Communitys Future and Emerging Technologies Presence initiative. The aim of the re...
Investigating ubiquitous computing in the home.
Conference Proceeding
Baillie, L., & Benyon, D. (2000)
Investigating ubiquitous computing in the home. In Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing in the Home, 16-33
In this paper, we describe a series of workshops which were carried out in homes of five
families in Scotland. The aim of the workshops was to explore the requirements that pe...
Ethnography, theory and systems design: from intuition to insight
Journal Article
MACAULAY, C., BENYON, D., & CRERAR, A. (2000)
Ethnography, theory and systems design: from intuition to insight. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(1), 35-60. https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.2000.0376
The idea for this paper came from a debate at the 1998 ISCRAT conference in Denmark on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). A leading activist in the movement to bring ...
Metaphors and models: conceptual foundations of representations for interactive systems design.
Journal Article
Benyon, D. & Imaz, M. (1999)
Metaphors and models: conceptual foundations of representations for interactive systems design. Human-Computer Interaction. 14, 159-189. doi:10.1080/07370024.1999.9667268. ISSN 0737-0024
When system developers design a computer system (or other information artifact), they must inevitably make judgments as to how to abstract the worksystem and how to represent ...
The skull beneath the skin: entity-relationship models of information artifacts
Journal Article
Green, T. R. G., & Benyon, D. (1996)
The skull beneath the skin: entity-relationship models of information artifacts. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 44(6), 801-828. https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1996.0034
Data modelling reveals the internal structure of an information system, abstracting away
from details of the physical representation. We show that entity-relationship modellin...