[Air-l] Can User Centred Design be Harmful?

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

A short report from usability news about a workshop at chi 2007.
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article3882.asp

"A critical observation was that in these settings, the idea of a  
single user owning and interacting with a single device, around some  
individually oriented task, is often inappropriate. Instead, systems  
are more often shared and used by communities, and their objectives  
are also geared to development and growth of the community."



Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron