Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies

Jesper Simonsen; Morten Hertzum; Jørgen Lerche Nielsen; Søren Riis

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Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies

Jesper Simonsen, Morten Hertzum, Jørgen Lerche Nielsen, Søren Riis

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Design is increasingly becoming a part of the university curriculum and research agenda. A theory about the pro-cess and practice of design might be important to estab-lish design as a main subject at universities. We believe it is in the interest of many design communities – not least the Participatory Design (PD) community – to engage in theorizing design, on the basis of our understanding of design and design practices. This theory could be posi-tioned as an alternative to other attempts to theorize design, for example the influential efforts of the Information Systems (IS) community. We urge the PD community to engage in collective theory building, and we present a framework intended to support our shared reflections on the design of human technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2 Dec 2014
Pages	444-447
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-0653-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686682
Publication status	Published - 2 Dec 2014

Series	Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference. Proceedings

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Design
theory
epistemology
framework

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Simonsen, J., Hertzum, M., Nielsen, J. L., & Riis, S. (2014). Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies. In OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design (pp. 444-447). Association for Computing Machinery. Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference. Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686682

Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies. / Simonsen, Jesper; Hertzum, Morten; Nielsen, Jørgen Lerche et al.

OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design . Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 444-447 (Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference. Proceedings).

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Simonsen, J, Hertzum, M, Nielsen, JL & Riis, S 2014, Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies. in OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design . Association for Computing Machinery, Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference. Proceedings, pp. 444-447. https://doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686682

Simonsen J, Hertzum M, Nielsen JL, Riis S. Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies. In OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design . Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 444-447. (Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference. Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2686612.2686682

Simonsen, Jesper ; Hertzum, Morten ; Nielsen, Jørgen Lerche et al. / Toward a Theory for the Design of Human Technologies. OzCHI '14 Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design . Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 444-447 (Australasian Computer Human Interaction Conference. Proceedings).

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