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Book Review: Sustainable Innovation : A New Age of Innovation and Finland's Innovation Policy by Hautamäki A.
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)Kirja-arvostelu/Book Review kirjasta: Hautamäki, A. (2010). Sustainable Innovation: A New Age of Innovation and Finland’s Innovation Policy [Sitra Reports 87]. Helsinki, Finland: Sitra and Edita Prima, Ltd. 144 pages. -
Capturing User Experiences of Mobile Information Technology with the Repertory Grid Technique
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)We describe the application of the repertory grid technique (RGT) as a tool for capturing the user experience of technological artifacts. In noting the artificiality of assessing the emotional impact of interactive artifacts ... -
Tempting to Tag : An Experimental Comparison of Four Tagging Input Mechanisms
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)Tagging helps achieve improved indexing and recommendation of resources (e.g., videos or pictures) in large data collections. In order to reap the benefits of tagging, people must be persuaded to label the resources they ... -
User Expressions Translated into Requirements
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)Grounding the development of mobile and ubiquitous services on actual needs and behaviors of users, rather than on designers’ intuition, is a well-established tradition. However, gathering data about users in different ... -
Productive love promotion via affective technology : An approach based on social psychology and philosophy
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)A recent development in the technology acceptance literature is the inclusion of gender as a moderator of the relationships between intention and its antecedents, such that some are stronger for men than women, and vice ... -
Is it really gender? An empirical investigation into gender effects in technology adoption through the examination of individual differences
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)A recent development in the technology acceptance literature is the inclusion of gender as a moderator of the relationships between intention and its antecedents, such that some are stronger for men than women, and vice ... -
From the Editor in Chief: Scientific and Design Stances
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Human Technology, 2010 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2 (The entire issue)
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Using Rationale to Assist Student Cognitive and Intellectual Development
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)One of the questions posed at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored workshop on Creativity and Rationale in Software Design was on the role of rationale in supporting idea generation in the classroom. College ... -
The Practice Level in Participatory Design Rationale: Studying Practitioner Moves and Choices
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)Most research in design rationale focuses on specific tools, methods, models, or artifacts. There has been relatively little attention to the practice level of design rationale work: the human experience of working with ... -
Promoting Group Creativity in Upstream Requirements Engineering
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)The upstream stage of requirements engineering (RE) focuses primarily on determining high-level organizational requirements. Upstream RE provides perhaps the best opportunity to instill creativity into the design process, ... -
Juxtaposing Design Representations for Creativity
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)This paper argues that the influence of design rationale on creativity is best achieved by concurrent use of scenarios, prototypes and models. A framework of cognitive affordances is introduced to discuss the merits and ... -
Critical Conversations: Feedback as a Stimulus to a Creativity in Software Design
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)Three decades of creating software to support design rationale showed the author how rationale processes can promote generation of novel ideas. Rationale can promote creative design by promoting critical conversations among ... -
Human Technology, 2010 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1 (The entire issue) : Special Issue on Creativity and Rationale in Software Design
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Guest Editor's Introduction: The Essential Tension of Creativity and Rationale in Software Design
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From the Editor in Chief: The Right Concepts for the Right Problems
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Does Design Rationale Enhance Creativity?
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2010)Creativity and rationale are often viewed as two contrasting facets in software design. A lack in recognizing the facilitative relationship between creativity and rationale not only underestimates the benefits designers ...
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