Designing for participation in socio-technical software systems

  • Authors:
  • Yunwen Ye;Gerhard Fischer

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for LifeLong Learning and Design, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder and SRA Key Technology Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan;Center for LifeLong Learning and Design, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human computer interaction: coping with diversity
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Participative software systems are a new class of software systems whose development does not end at the deployment but requires continued user participation and contribution. They need to provide both solutions to users and a participation framework that entails technical and social challenges. Metadesign is a promising approach to guide the development of participative software systems. Drawing on lessons learned from a systematic analysis of Open Source Software projects, this paper described general issues that need to be addressed to enable and encourage continued user participation during the meta-design process.