Supporting Configuring as Appropriation Work
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Based on two different but complementary cases – the ‘mixed media case’ (architectural design work) and the ’wireless call system case’ (hospital work) – we argue that taking advantage of the potential that configurable systems offer may require attention to several ‘qualities of use’. Here we provide further elaboration of the concept of configurability, which we have suggested elsewhere (Balka et.al., 2005).
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