Participatory Design
This line of research interest applies interactionist social science perspectives to HCI and Participatory Design. An ESRC funded project (£62,000) investigated the use of prototyping in commercial information systems development in the UK, 1995-1998. In this project, qualitative semi-structured interviews with commercial practitioners were followed by a series of mini case studies employing an ethnographic approach. In the course of the project, we encountered a variety of practical strategies which attempted to extend the sphere of developers’ influence beyond the technical realm. Various techniques aimed to create a climate of joint ownership and shared approaches to change management. Rather than a cause and effect model from user requirements to specification to implementation, developer strategies can usefully be considered in terms of sociological work on reflexive elaboration of networks. Findings are discussed in the papers below.
Publications:
Tudhope D., Beynon-Davies P., Mackay H., Slack R. 2001. Time and representational devices in Rapid Application Development. Interacting with Computers, 13(4), 447-466. Elsevier Science. doi:10.1016/S0953-5438(00)00050-3
Tudhope D., Beynon-Davies P., Mackay H. 2000. Prototyping praxis: constructing computer systems and building belief. Human-Computer Interaction, 15(4), 353-383. Lawrence Erlbaum. final preprint
Beynon-Davies, P., Mackay, H., Tudhope, D. 2000. ‘It’s lots of bits of paper and ticks and post-it notes and things…’: A Case Study of a Rapid Application Development Project. Information Systems Journal, 10(3), 195-216. Blackwell Science.
Mackay, H., Carne C., Beynon-Davies, P., Tudhope, D. 2000. Reconfiguring the user: Using Rapid Application Development. Social Studies of Science, 30(5), 737-757. Sage.
Beynon-Davies P., Tudhope D., Mackay H. 1999. Information Systems Prototyping in practice. Journal of Information Technology, 14, 107-120.
Beynon-Davies P., Carne C., Mackay H., Tudhope D. 1999. Rapid Application Development (RAD): an empirical review. European Journal of Information Systems, 8, 211-223.
Beynon-Davies P., Mackay H., Tudhope D. 1999. User involvement: organisational sub-cultures and development trajectory. Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 3(1), 1-14.
Beynon-Davies P., Carne C., Mackay H., Tudhope D. 1998. A case study of a Rapid Application Development Project. Proceedings 6th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS’98), Aix-en-Provence, June.
Beynon-Davies P., Mackay H., Tudhope D., Slack R. 1996. Information Systems Prototyping: A study of development practice. Proceedings 4th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS’96), Lisbon, Vol II, 953-969.
Tudhope D., Slack R., Beynon-Davies P., Mackay H. 1996. RAD versus PD: Participatory Design in Britain and Scandinavia. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Joint Conf., Bielefeld, Oct.
Beynon-Davies P., Mackay H., Tudhope D., Slack R. 1995. Prototyping, Risk and Information Systems Failure. Proceedings 3rd BCS Conference on Information Systems Methodologies, Wrexham, 221-236.
Tudhope D. 1992. Envisioning user requirements: participatory design and constructivism. ESRC PICT Annual Conference. Newport, April.
