Supporting End User Development in Community Computing: Requirements, Opportunities, and Challenges

End - User Computing , Development and Software Engineering : New Challenges

Software environments for supporting End-User Development

In the Information Society, end users keep increasing very fast in number, as well as in their demand with respect to the activities they would like to perform with computer environments, without being obliged to become computer specialists. There is a great request to provide end users with powerful and flexible environments, tailorable to the culture, skills and needs of a very diverse end us...

Opportunities & Challenges for End-User Development Activities in Information Systems Curricula

End-user development (EUD) activities where the end-user assumes a central role in creating or modifying software artefacts have the potential to offer meaningful experiential learning opportunities for students in IS courses. By providing hands-on exposure to technology platforms in the context of business problems and requirements, EUD activities can help bridge the gap between education and ...

Conceptual and Technical Scaffolds for End User Development: Using Scenarios and Wikis in Community Computing

Community group members are often technologically disadvantaged end users. I explore the use of scenarios and wikis to encourage community groups to become more literate in information technology. My fieldwork suggests that scenarios and wikis can empower community group members as designers, allowing them to become producers of web content rather than just consumers.

Community development in primary care: opportunities and challenges.

This qualitative study aimed to explore primary health care professionals' views on community development, and to identify the opportunities and barriers associated with using this approach in practice. Participants in community development training--mainly health visitors--took part in small group discussions before, after, and six months following the training course. Opportunities for using ...