ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
User-tailorable systems: pressing the issues with buttons
CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Patterns of sharing customizable software
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Gardeners and gurus: patterns of cooperation among CAD users
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
JXTA: A Network Programming Environment
IEEE Internet Computing
The Appropriation of Interactive Technologies: Some Lessons from Placeless Documents
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Over the Shoulder Learning: Supporting Brief Informal Learning
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Share and share alike: exploring the user interface affordances of file sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study of reviews and ratings on the internet
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How Are Java Software Developers Using the Eclipse IDE?
IEEE Software
Making things work: dimensions of configurability as appropriation work
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Music sharing as a computer supported collaborative application
ECSCW'01 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Supporting cooperative awareness with local event mechanisms: the groupdesk system
ECSCW'95 Proceedings of the fourth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Human-Computer Interaction
Ticket-to-talk-television: designing for the circumstantial nature of everyday social interaction
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
Towards a paradigmatic shift in IS: designing for social practice
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Peer interaction effectively, yet infrequently, enables programmers to discover new tools
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Supporting the Collaborative Appropriation of an Open Software Ecosystem
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Facilitation of sustainability through appropriation-enabling design
Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation
Exploring usage scenarios on social devices: balancing between surprise and user control
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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There is an increasing spread of flexible software applications that can be modified by adding components (sometimes called plug-ins or add-ons). A popular example in the software development domain is Eclipse, a flexible development environment that can be extended with literally thousands of different plug-ins. However, searching, installing and configuring new plug-ins requires complex overhead work that is only weakly addressed by existing support mechanisms. Recent research has highlighted the related practices of learning about new plug-ins and tailoring software tools as being highly cooperative, situated, socially embedded, and often connected to particular work situations. Based on an empirical study in small software enterprises, we develop an understanding of appropriation as a social and collaborative activity. We then suggest design principles for appropriation support that are grounded in the practices we have found in the field, and present a prototypical implementation of the concept that extends existing mechanisms of sharing tools and tool-knowledge.