Computer Applications as Mediators of Design and Use

Abstract

The present report constitutes together with 21 submitted papers the author's doctor's dissertation.
This dissertation summarizes an understanding of computers as the materials that we shape in design, on the one hand, and the artifacts that we use, in work and other everyday activities on the other. The presented work is primarily methodological and design-oriented, i.e. it is concerned with changing computer applications and with understanding them as changing and as part of change.