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      Designing for Appropriation

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      Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK (HCI)
      British HCI Group Annual Conference
      3 - 7 September 2007
      appropriation, hackability, tailorability, guidelines
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            Abstract

            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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            Conference
            September 2007
            September 2007
            : 1-4
            Affiliations
            [0001]Computing Department, InfoLab21

            Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK

            +44 1524 510 319

            http://www.hcibook.com/alan/papers/HCI2007-appropriation/
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            10.14236/ewic/HCI2007.53
            04cb6e63-ce2a-4202-a792-fc34e2da6938
            © Alan Dix. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of HCI 2007 The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference University of Lancaster, UK
            HCI
            21
            Lancaster, UK
            3 - 7 September 2007
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            British HCI Group Annual Conference
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            appropriation,hackability,tailorability,guidelines

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