NDLI: From technology to activity development: the challenge of using students as participants in a PD project

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From technology to activity development: the challenge of using students as participants in a PD project

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Nuojua, Johanna Soudunsaari, Leena Hentilä, Helka-Liisa Kuutti, Kari Juustila, Antti Molin-Juustila, Tonja
Abstract	The interest of evaluating new information technologies in real-life conditions "in the wild" has recently been increasing. For this new direction, researchers and technology developers need to find the real-life context in which to intervene and the users willing to test the prototype technologies in their everyday practices. Additional complications follow from the ecology of several applications used together. In this paper, experiences from a complex real-life experiment with a set of three research prototypes are analyzed. Based on the results, master-level students are competent users when evaluating individual prototypes but less suitable for integrating separate prototypes into meaningful ecology and envisioning a transition from a traditional way of working to a new one. For this task, users are needed who have a vision of the new and who recognize the problems and tensions between the old and the nascent new.
Starting Page	81
Ending Page	90
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450322560
DOI	10.1145/2661435.2661439
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-10-06
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	User-centered design Student users Ecology Prototyping
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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