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Contextual design: defining customer-centered systems
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An activity theory approach to affordance
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Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Facilitating collaboration through design games
PDC 04 Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices - Volume 1
Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
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With the aim of discussing user involvement from a user perspective the paper suggests a way to revitalize the theory of model power presented by Bråten at the 1985 Aarhus conference. This revitalization is done by understanding 'model' as 'idealized cognitive model' in Lakoff's definition, and understanding the power issue accordingly. A simple analytical framework is introduced to help designers reflect on whether or not the cooperative design-techniques they employ, do in fact give room for the users' cognitive models. The paper concludes with a discussion of whether model power is still an issue for critical computing.