"…real, concrete facts about what works …": integrating evaluation and design through patterns

Elizabeth Guy

"…real, concrete facts about what works …": integrating evaluation and design through patterns

Elizabeth Guy

University of Brighton

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Abstract

Recent CSCW research has focused on methods for evaluating usability, rather than the more problematic evaluation of systems in use. A possible approach to the integration of use, design and evaluation is through the representation of evaluation findings as design-oriented models. A method is described for modeling computer-supported cooperative work and its context: a design patterns language, based on the principles of activity theory. The language is the outcome of an evaluation of the evolving use of tools to support collaborative information sharing, carried out at a global NGO.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Group 2005
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Group 2005 - Sanibel Island, Florida, USA Duration: 1 Jan 2005 → …

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Conference	Group 2005
Period	1/01/05 → …

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This is the author’s version of the paper and is not for re-distribution. The final version is published by the ACM in the Proceedings of GROUP’05,
November 6–9, 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Copyright 2005 ACM.

Keywords

Modeling computer-supported cooperative work
evaluation
activity theory
pattern languages
activity patterns

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