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End-User Development and Meta-design: Foundations for Cultures of Participation

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IS-EUD 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development - Volume 5435

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The first decade of the World Wide Web predominantly enforced a clear separation between designers and consumers. New technological developments, such as the cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0 architectures, have emerged to support a participatory Web. These developments are the foundations for a fundamental shift from a consumer culture specialized in producing finished goods to be consumed passively to a culture of participation in which all people are provided with the means to participate actively in personally meaningful activities. End-user development and meta-design provide foundations for this fundamental transformation. They explore and support new approaches for the design, adoption, appropriation, adaptation, evolution, and sharing of artifacts by all participating stakeholders. They take into account that cultures of participation are not dictated by technology alone: they are the result of incremental shifts in human behavior and social organizations.

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IS-EUD 2009: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development - Volume 5435

March 2009

277 pages

ISBN:9783642004254

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University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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Mary Rosson
College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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Boris Ruyter
Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Volker Wulf
Faculty of Information System and New Media, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

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