[ecrea] Book: 'Innovating for and by users'

> Book: 'Innovating for and by users'
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> Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eugene Loos and Bartolomeo Sapio
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> EU Publications Office - COST298 - ISBN 978-92-898-0047-1
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> The book looks at socio-technological transitions and shifting roles =20
> of users in the design and innovation of broadband technologies and =20
> digital media. The different chapters aim to shed more light on the =20
> =91black box=92 of design and use of ICTs. In this way we hope to =20
> contribute to the empowerment of people in their relationship(s) with =20=
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> new media and - through this - to increase the quality of social life. =20=
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> The title =91Innovating for and by users=92 refers to insights on how to =
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> innovate by involving users more intensely in the design of =20
> technological innovations, which can lead to innovations that create =20
> more benefits for these users. The different authors deliver a timely =20=
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> reality check on the current information society in Europe from a =20
> users=92 perspective, in a general (theoretical) sense as well as in =20
> specific domains (digital television, e-publishing, care sector...). =20
> This is done in an interdisciplinary way by integrating social science =20=
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> views and engineering approaches. The findings are based on academic =20
> and industry-driven digital media research in various European =20
> countries.
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> For more information on this book, please visit: =
> http://smit.vub.ac.be/ifbu
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> Jo Pierson, Ph.D.
> IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor
> B - 1050 Brussels
> Belgium
> Tel: +32 2 629 16 27
> Fax: +32 2 629 17 00
> E-mail: (jo.pierson /at/ vub.ac.be)
> http://smit.vub.ac.be

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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