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design for appropriation: a standalone construct

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Design research

designing systems so users can adapt them to purposes the designers did not foresee, using principles such as allowing interpretation.

In design research, design for appropriation refers to designing systems so users can adapt them to purposes the designers did not foresee, using principles such as allowing interpretation. This meaning comes from Dix (2007) in Electronic Workshops in Computing.[1]

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appropriation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs interpretation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Dix, A. (2007). Designing for Appropriation. Electronic Workshops in Computing. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2007.53

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