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Collaborative design as narrative

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George Triantafyllakos,

George Palaigeorgiou,

Ioannis TsoukalasAuthors Info & Claims

PDC '08: Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008

Pages 210 - 213

Published: 01 October 2008 Publication History

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Narrative theory or narratology is the systematic study of narrative and narrative structure [3]. It provides the necessary theoretical tools that can help scrutinize the various ways in which narrative is formed and is deciphered by an audience. In this paper, we suggest the use of narrative theory as: (a) a means to a detailed deconstruction or engineering of a collaborative design process, and (b) an analytical device for the in depth exploration of the design space.

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Triantafyllakos GPalaigeorgiou GTsoukalas I(2010)Fictional characters in participatory design sessionsInteracting with Computers10.5555/1750582.175064122:3(165-175)Online publication date: 1-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1750582.1750641
Triantafyllakos GPalaigeorgiou GTsoukalas I(2009)Design alter egosProceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology10.5555/1671011.1671014(20-28)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1671011.1671014

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PDC '08: Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008

October 2008

345 pages

ISBN:9780981856100

Conference Chair:
David Hakken
Indiana University, Indiana
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Roskilde University, Denmark
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Toni Roberston
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Triantafyllakos GPalaigeorgiou GTsoukalas I(2010)Fictional characters in participatory design sessionsInteracting with Computers10.5555/1750582.175064122:3(165-175)Online publication date: 1-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1750582.1750641
Triantafyllakos GPalaigeorgiou GTsoukalas I(2009)Design alter egosProceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology10.5555/1671011.1671014(20-28)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1671011.1671014

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