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“Each to His Own”: Distinguishing Activities, Roles and Artifacts in EUD Practices

In: Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts

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  • Federico Cabitza

    (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

  • Daniela Fogli

    (Università degli Studi di Brescia)

  • Antonio Piccinno

    (Università degli Studi di Bari)

Abstract

End-User Development (EUD) studies how to empower end users (among which, e.g., professionals and organizational workers) to modify, adapt and extend the software systems they daily use, thus coping with the evolving needs of their work organizations and the shop-floor environment. This research area is becoming increasingly important also for the cross fertilization of ideas and approaches that come from the fields of Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction. However, if one considers the variety of research proposals stemming from this common ground, there is the risk of losing denotational precision of the key terms adopted in the common vocabulary of EUD. To counteract this natural semantic drift, the objective of this paper is to distinguish within three EUD complementary important notions, namely activities, roles, and artifacts, in order to help researchers deepen important phenomena regarding the “meta-design” of systems built to support EUD practices.

Suggested Citation

  • Federico Cabitza & Daniela Fogli & Antonio Piccinno, 2014. "“Each to His Own”: Distinguishing Activities, Roles and Artifacts in EUD Practices," Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, in: Leonardo Caporarello & Beniamino Di Martino & Marcello Martinez (ed.), Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts, edition 127, pages 193-205, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-319-07040-7_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07040-7_19
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