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Socially Embedded Technology: The Pathway to Sustainable Product Development

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The design of IT artifacts has been focused for the past 50 years on delivering products that serve the needs of a particular set of end users. User-centered design methods relating to the design of IT artifacts have evolved in both the academic context, in fields such as HCI, and in the commercial context. Both share a common commitment to the analysis and understanding of stakeholder requirements. The underlying rationale of such methods was that there exists a “perfect” design solution for supporting a given set of use cases and that the shipped design should reflect this as much as possible to guarantee product success.

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Beringer, J., Latzina, M. (2015). Socially Embedded Technology: The Pathway to Sustainable Product Development. In: Wulf, V., Schmidt, K., Randall, D. (eds) Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6720-4_2

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