Our research provides insights about an emergent form of distributed participatory design occurring in open source software communities. Our research contributions are

Design and development of new instruments requires much attention with respect to safety, performance and comfort. Introducing new technology is a matter of taking care of past user experience on current technology and anticipating possible user experience on prototypes incrementally developed. The intricate spiral combination of prototyping and format...

Following a previous description of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations as participatory design (Pries-Heje & Dittrich, 2009), this paper explores the case of a medium-sized, family-owned manufacturing company and its endeavors with changing their current ERP system. The case was selected on the premise of it being perceived a success by the involved stakeholders. Through a serie...

Assessing risks of projects is difficult from a practical as well as from a theoretical point of view but valuable in both dimensions. Project management and risks in projects can be discussed from a systems theory perspective that focuses on how systems develop and stay stable in spite of change. This approach is refined and applied to in three phases of a project-life-cycle (decisions made be...

Medical information systems which support high quality electronic health records are significant part of hospital processes. Usable and efficient user interfaces should be developed by implementing user centered development methodologies to gather the reliable and accurate data in medical information systems. It is known that better humancomputer interface can be designed by the user-participat...

For most medical informatics software products, insufficient effort is spent on the design phase of production. However, poor design often leads to systems that are either not well accepted, or far less effective than they could be. In this paper, we describe the ideas of participatory design and discuss why these ideas are especially applicable to medical informatics systems. In particular, we...