Within information systems development, the notion of user participation has become institutionalised practice, almost to the extent that many believe that not involving the users precludes success. For those developers who focus upon technical elegance, there is acknowledgement that lack of acceptance by users will be as catastrophic for the information system as so-called ‘technical’ deficien...

Reflective practice was originally conceived as a radical critique of technical rationality, and was based on the premise that knowledge generated by practitioners reflecting on their own experiences is of at least equal value to knowledge derived by ac ademics from empirical research. However, experiential knowledge from reflection-on-action now finds itself at the bottom of the hierarchy of e...

Socio-technical design is an established technique in the information system development repertoire with a strong provenance in the Mumford’s work on ETHICS and the participatory design tradition in Scandinavia. Although there has been wide acceptance of the need for socio-technical design in the academic community (for example, socio-technical design has been adopted as a core perspective in t...

At this time, various social media have emerged which function like radio. The convenience provided by made people use it. So that users were increasing and it was possible to reduce radio fans. But on the one hand, there still who broadcasts. This study aimed explain reasons why fans are listening GIS FM amid media. research used qualitative methods with data collection techniques interview, o...

1Department of Exercise and Health, Faculty of Human Kinetics, Technical University of Lisbon, 1495-688 Cruz Quebrada, Portugal 2Adaptive Rationality Center, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3Department of Medicine, Center for Community Health, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14607, USA 4Department of Psychology, Center for Health, Interve...