An investigation of user-led system design: rational and political perspectives
Communications of the ACM - Special section on management of information systems
Information systems failures—a survey and classification of the empirical literature
Oxford Surveys in Information Technology
Information systems and user resistance: theory and practice
The Computer Journal
Communications of the ACM
Four paradigms of information systems development
Communications of the ACM
A debate on teaching computing science
Communications of the ACM
Professional systems development: experience, ideas and action
Professional systems development: experience, ideas and action
Teaching calculation and discrimination: a more effective curriculum
Communications of the ACM
Software engineering (3rd ed.): a practitioner's approach
Software engineering (3rd ed.): a practitioner's approach
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Information systems engineering: an introduction
Information systems engineering: an introduction
User participation and democracy: a discussion of Scandinavian research on systems development
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Communications of the ACM - Special issue Participatory Design
Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
Prototyping: An Approach to Evolutionary System Development
Prototyping: An Approach to Evolutionary System Development
Information Systems Methodologies; A Framework for Understanding, 2nd Ed.
Information Systems Methodologies; A Framework for Understanding, 2nd Ed.
STEPS to Software Development with Users
ESEC '89 Proceedings of the 2nd European Software Engineering Conference
Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
Make room for ethnography in design!: overlooked collaborative and educational prospects
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
Participatory Design in Consulting
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Participatory Design: Issues and Concerns
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Testing the Usability of Two Automated Home-Based Patient-Management Systems
Journal of Medical Systems
Encountering others: reciprocal openings in participatory design and user-centered design
Human-Computer Interaction
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
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User participation and participatory design (PD) have not yet been topics of central interest in the context of formal education for computing professionals. This article addresses this subject. It takes its starting point in the ongoing curriculum debate and discusses how mathematical-and engineering-based approaches and traditional system-development training contribute to education in computer science and informatics. All these approaches have shortcomings as they each relate mainly to a technical-oriented paradigm, which pays little attention to other vital aspects of computing, namely organizational, social, and political ones. Therefore, the curriculum debate is widened and it is argued why user participation and PD (as approaches that deal with these issues) should be part of a comprehensive computing education. An example of an actual course program and the description of one particular course demonstrate how these subjects can be integrated in computer science and system development education.