People are Doing it for Themselves

David Weightman; Deana McDonagh

doi:10.1145/782896.782905

People are Doing it for Themselves

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Abstract

To date, the objective of creating pleasurable products has concentrated on designers articulating and interpreting user needs as part of the product creation process. This paper explores approaches to enable users to adapt, modify, specify or create products to match their needs directly. Using the potential of new technologies, active consumers can now become product creators, paralleling developments in graphics, music and digital media production. Empowered users, self-builders, recreational manufacturers, web-connected silver surfers (retired individuals using the web) and punk manufacturers all exemplify this new relationship between users and products, and the evolving role of designers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	34-39
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	1581136528, 9781581136524
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/782896.782905
State	Published - Jan 1 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi - Pittsburgh, PA, United States Duration: Jun 23 2003 → Jun 26 2003

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Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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Other	Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh, PA
Period	6/23/03 → 6/26/03

Keywords

Customisation
Democratisation of design
Supra-functional needs
User participation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human Factors and Ergonomics
Human-Computer Interaction

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People are Doing it for Themselves. / Weightman, David; McDonagh, Deana.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2003. p. 34-39 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces).

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Weightman, D & McDonagh, D 2003, People are Doing it for Themselves. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi. Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 34-39, Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 6/23/03. https://doi.org/10.1145/782896.782905

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