The Appropriation of Interactive Technologies: Some Lessons from Placeless Documents

By Paul Dourish. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2003

489 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Management Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction

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In Information Systems and Management

1. Alan John Dix
2. John Millar Carroll
3. Carrie J. Cai
4. Mary Beth Rosson
5. Min Kyung Lee

In Management Information Systems

1. Alan John Dix
2. John Millar Carroll
3. Mary Beth Rosson

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2. Lauren Wilcox
3. Alan John Dix
4. John Millar Carroll
5. Carrie J. Cai
6. Mary Beth Rosson
7. Laura A. Dabbish
8. Min Kyung Lee

Citations in the corpus

• Working with Machines: The Impact of Algorithmic and Data-Driven Management on Human Workers (2015, background): “…CSCW has investigated the impact of technology in the workplace: email [15], instant messaging [18], organizational information repositories [1], groupware [31], video conferencing [9], awareness technologies [12], desktop office software [8, 39], GPS for taxies [11], and robots in hospitals [30].”
• "Hello AI": Uncovering the Onboarding Needs of Medical Practitioners for Human-AI Collaborative Decision-Making (2019, background): “Finally, research on the clinical appropriation of interactive technologies into working practice found that technical systems need to be amenable to internal examination and reasoning by end-users, in order to be incorporated in their work [19].”
• Designing for appropriation (2007, background): “The guidelines are not new in that most can be found in some form embedded in the literature, for example, variants of the first two can be found (albeit buried somewhat) in [7].”
• Participatory design in community informatics (2007, background): “This organic process of colonising a community network is an example of what Dourish (2003) described as the appropriation of new information technology: People reshape technologyin-use to accommodate their practices and values, and in doing so, they increasingly come to feel ownership of the…”
• I’m Proud of It: Consumer Technology Appropriation and Psychological Ownership (2015, unknown): “The notion of technology appropriation, as a form of customization in use (Dourish, 2003; Orlikowski, 1992), aligns with this conceptualization and addresses calls in the information systems literature for increasing focus on user-tailorable systems, continuing design in use (i.e., allowing users…”