Jeg har fundet mit forskningsfelt! Participatory Design
Nå, ja, bedre sent end aldrig, kan man sige – her små 14 dage før aflevering af min master er jeg kommet frem til, at det felt, jeg arbejder inden for kaldes Participatory Design. Der findes simpelthen så mange forskellige felter, der på en eller anden måde beskæftiger sig med systemudvikling. Men det mit projekt ligger tættest på, må altså være Participatory Design – eller Participatory IT-Design.
Om dette felt skriver Sharp, Rogers and Preece (2007):
The idea of participatory design emerged in Scandinavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. There were two influences on this early work: the desire to be able to communicate information abaout complex systems, and the labor union movement pushing for workers to have democratic control over changes in their work. In the late 1970s, new laws gave workers the right to have a say in how their working environment was changed, and such laws are still in force today. …Several projects at this time attempted to involve users in design and tried to focus on work rather than on simply producing a product.
Dette hænger helt sammen med princippet om Reel Brugerdeltagelse i MUST-metoden, hvor de netop anfører de to pointer ved brugerdeltagelse: 1) gensidig læring mellem designer og bruger, samt 2) de ansattes ret til indflydelse på egen arbejdspraksis (Bødker, Kensing og Simonsen, 2000)
Jeg skal have fundet lidt flere oplysninger om dette felt, samt haveplaceret det i forhold til “den skandinaviske tradition”, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Brugerdreven Innovation, Interaction Design m.fl.
Sharp, H., Y. Rogers og J. Preece, 2007: Interaction design. Beyond human-computer interaction. 2. udg. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Bødker, K., F. Kensing og J. Simonsen, 2000: Professionel IT-forundersøgelse – grundlaget for bæredygtige IT-anvendelser. Samfundslitteratur.
