The Ecology of Participants in Co-evolving Socio-technical Environments

Authors:
Gerhard Fischer;Antonio Piccinno;Yunwen Ye
Affiliations:
Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D), Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy;Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D), Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and SRA Key Technology Lab, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
HCSE-TAMODIA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering and 7th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The traditional notions of developer and user are unable to reflect the fact that many software systems nowadays are developed with the participation of many people of different interests and capabilities. The sharp distinction between users and developers gets blurred. Many researchers have used different concepts such as end-user developer, prosumer, pro-am to describe those new in-between roles. This paper provides a conceptual framework for characterizing varied activities that all people involved in using and developing software systems from a socio-technical perspective. The conceptual framework clarifies the spectrum of different use and development activities by a continuum of participants with different roles. Based on the framework, we analyze how participants change their roles to migrate from users to developers through interactions, and how such interactions co-evolve both the community and software artifacts.