Items for "historical analysis"

An Activity-Theoretical Method for Studying User Participation in IS Design

OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to present an activity-theoretical method for studying the effects of user participation in IS development. METHODS: This method is developed through a case study of the process of designing a diabetes database. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The method consists of a historical analysis of the design process, an ethnographical study of the use of the database, and researcher-driven interventions into the on-going user-producer interaction...

Keywords: Diabetes databases, activity theory, historical analysis, ethnography, interventions