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Designing for appropriation

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BCS-HCI '07: Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2

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Published: 03 September 2007 Publication History

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Ethnographies often show that users appropriate and adapt technology in ways never envisaged by the designers, or even deliberately subverting the designers' intentions. As design can never be complete, such appropriation is regarded as an important and positive phenomenon. However designing for appropriation is often seen as an oxymoron; it appears impossible to design for the unexpected. In this paper we present some guidelines for appropriation based on our own experience and published literature and demonstrate their use in two case studies. You may not be able to design for the unexpected, but you can design to allow the unexpected.

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Index Terms

Designing for appropriation
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
        Music retrieval

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BCS-HCI '07: Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2

September 2007

270 pages

ISBN:9781902505954

Conference Chairs:
Tom Ormerod
Lancaster University, UK
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Corina Sas
Lancaster University, UK

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BCS Learning & Development Ltd.

Swindon, United Kingdom

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