This paper examines the role of user-centered design (UCD) approaches to design and implementation of a mobile social software application to support student social workers in their work place. The experience of using a variant of UCD is outlined. The principles and expected norms of UCD raised a number of key lessons. It is proposed that these problems and lessons are a result of the inadequac...

Design research develops knowledge to respond to real-world challenges and solve authentic problems. In this paper, we adopt a pragmatic and semantic design approach to combine the best of two separate design discourses: the discourse about developing science-based design rules and the discourse on user-centered, participative, and experience-based design. We develop a methodology that combines...

We present a case study of an application for supporting home health care practitioners in their work. Groups of practitioners have been interviewed as well as representatives for the sales organization. Below the application is presented as well as work practices before and after the introduction of the system and perceived benefits of the system. Keywords-component; mobile IT, home health car...

Im Zuge des sich abzeichnenden digitalen Lebensstils, in dem Nutzer zunehmend zu partizipativen (Mit-)Gestaltern werden, wird die für den/die Einzelne(n) relevante Informationsmenge auch in Zukunft weiter ansteigen. Angesichts der Unübersichtlichkeit des Informationsangebots im WWW stellt sich zunehmend die Frage, wie nützliche Information gefunden und wiedergefunden werden kann. In diesem Aufs...

A brief review of muon-collider s-channel Higgs physics in the Standard Model and its minimal supersymmetric extension is presented.

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Interest is growing in studying canine and human relationships, especially working canines and their role in society. Interest is also growing in designing informed, user centered interactive technologies for animals. Combining these two themes, my doctoral research looks at creating user-centered, ethnographically informed designs for working animals (working dogs). The work examines existing ...