NordiCHI 2000 — Keynote speakers
Cooperative Design — perspectives on 20 years with "the Scandinavian IT Design Model"
| Susanne Bødker DAIMI University of Aarhus Denmark | Pelle Ehn Konst och kommunikation Malmö University Sweden |
Dan Sjögren Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (NUTEK) Sweden | Yngve Sundblad CID, NADA, KTH Sweden |
The presenters were all involved in the "seminal" Utopia project, 1981-85, where Cooperative Design methodology, involving users very early in the design process, was invented and used. Since then the obvious idea to involve the users as early as possible in systems and interface design has become a standard to which most developers pay at least lip-service, but do not necessarily follow it in practise. We discuss reasons for this and give a number of good examples of cooperative design, with workers in a dairy, a waste water plant, elementary school children, labour inspectors and bridge supervision engineers. We furthermore discuss strategies for applying cooperative design practices in industrial systems and product design.
Ynge Sundblad