Disputation i informatik

Malin Wik försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i informatik "Prototyping with purpose: Increasing participatory design with malleable interactive prototypes"

Doktorsavhandling Malin Wik 2024:17

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This study explores the role of prototyping in the democratisation of IT systems design processes. It introduces malleable interactive prototyping, which involves the utilisation of prototypes that allow users to perform valuable tasks and experience the design but are still open enough to enable unexpected interaction patterns and to be collaboratively designed during the interaction. This approach is investigated through two studies: in a hospital, where citizens collaboratively designed an IT system with a designer, and in an upper secondary school, where pupils collaboratively designed IT systems with peers, revealing the prototyping’s potential to boost participation and learning. A qualitative analysis concluded that malleable interactive prototyping enhances participation by giving users an informed voice in the design process, facilitating collaborative design, fostering mutual learning between designer and user, and improving design validity. This approach has the potential to enhance learning for young learners—whether or not programming is in their curricula—by clarifying the future use of IT systems and the users’ role and providing experiences of democratic design processes. This suggests integrating socio-technical perspectives into the curriculum. 

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Medverkande

• Suhas Joshi, opponent, docent, Oslo universitet
• Maria Normark, betygsnämnd, docent, Uppsala universitet
• Marcelo Milrad, betygsnämnd, professor, Linnéuniversitetet
• Juho Lindman, betygsnämnd, professor, Göteborgs universitet
   

Upplysningar

• Anna Åkesson
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