Week 7 Readings
Reviews are due by noon May 8. However, please read the participatory
design paper before class Monday May 7, since we'll be discussing
participatory design that day. Responses are due before class on Wednesday
May 9. We're using e-post this week.
Optional papers (no review necessary)
Findings from Social Psychology
- Internet
paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and
psychological well-being?, by Kraut, R., Patterson, M., Lundmark, V.,
Kiesler, S, Mukophadhyay,T & Scherlis, W. (1998). American Psychologist,
Vol. 53, No. 9. See the
HomeNet web site for
other information; in particular, there is a short piece in CACM about the
work (Social
impact of the Internet: What Does It Mean?).
- Social capital:
Participatory Design
- Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng, "Introduction: Situated Design",
Chapter 1 of Design at Work, Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng, eds.
(handout)
- Pelle Ehn, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ... the Cartesian Approach and
Beyond", Chapter 1 of Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
(handout)
- Olav Bertelsen, "Contradictions in the Festival Project" (handout)
- The
M.A.D. Experience: Multiperspective
Application Development in evolutionary prototyping by
Christensen, M., Crabtree, A., Damm, C.H., Hansen, K.M., Madsen, O.L.,
Marqvardsen, P., Mogensen, P., Sandvad, E., Sloth, L., Thomsen, M.,
in Proceedings of the 12th European
Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP '98), Brussels, Belgium.
- Ethnography in Participatory
Design by Andy Crabtree, in Proceedings of the 1998 Participatory
Design Conference, Seattle, Washington.
The special section of the May 1999 Communications of the ACM on
"The Diversity of Usability Practices" also has some material on
participatory design -- these papers are listed in the Optional Papers
section of the Week 3 readings.
Resources for Universal Accessibility
It's instructive to compare the "Accessible Web Page Design" guidelines
above with more general web usability heuristics, such as Jakob Nielsen's
Top Ten Mistakes of Web
Page Design and "Top Ten Mistakes"
Revisited Three Years Later.
There's a lot of overlap.