Gardeners and gurus: patterns of cooperation among CAD users
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Helping CSCW applications succeed: the role of mediators in the context of use
CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The Appropriation of Interactive Technologies: Some Lessons from Placeless Documents
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Appropriation of a MMS-based comic creator: from system functionalities to resources for action
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Facilitation of sustainability through appropriation-enabling design
Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation
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In a computing environment where computational artifacts come and go at rapid pace, products become easily outdated, resulting in lack of support. Consequently, users are constantly challenged to think about the trade-offs between maintaining and appropriating the current product and adopting an alternative product. This challenges us to think beyond designing individual products to be useful, usable, aesthetic, or learnable and consider what is necessary for sustainable and long-term use. In order to further understand users and find potential solutions to the design challenge, I explore how users perceive their everyday computational resources becoming outdated and in reaction how they deal with the problem during maintenance, appropriation, and adoption of computational resources on an ongoing fashion.