Much has been written about theory and practice in the law, and the tension between practitioners and theorists. Judges do not cite theoretical articles often; they rarely "apply" theories to particular cases. These arguments are not revisited. Instead the Essay explores the working and interaction of theory and practice, practitioners and theorists. The Essay starts with a story about solving a legal issue using our intellectual tools - theory, practice, and their progenies: experience and "gut." Next the Essay elaborates on the nature of theory, practice, experience and "gut." The third part of the Essay discusses theories that are helpful to practitioners and those that are less helpful. The Essay concludes that practitioners theorize, and theorists practice. They use these intellectual tools differently because the goals and orientations of theorists and practitioners, and the constraints under which they act, differ. Theory, practice, experience and "gut" help us think, remember, decide and create. They complement each other like the two sides of the same coin: distinct but inseparable.

Of Theory and Practice

Normal accidents. Living with high-risk technologies

Cognitive engineering

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166Just Add Users and Stir? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166Major Bibliographic Sources for Participatory Design . . .167

Participatory design: the third space in HCI

http://iihm.imag.fr/publs/2003/Calvary-IwC2003.pdf

A Unifying Reference Framework for multi-target user interfaces

From the Publisher:
If you are interested in understanding how the systematic use of task models in the design, development, and usability evaluation of interactive software applications can open new opportunities and possibilities then this book will help you do just that. Fabio Paterno also discusses related issues relevant to designing user interfaces and provides a state-of-the-art review of the field, including recently developed methods, current results and problems and trends." "Software Engineers will also find Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications a great help when developing projects.

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Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications

In this paper we discuss a notation to describe task models, which can specify a wide range of temporal relationships among tasks. It is a compact and graphical notation, immediate both to use and understand. Its logical structure and the related automatic tool make it suitable for designing even large sized applications.

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ConcurTaskTrees: A Diagrammatic Notation for Specifying Task Models

We think that over the next few years, the goal of interactive systems and services will evolve from just making systems easy to use (even though that goal has not yet been completely achieved) to making systems that are easy to develop by end users. By now, most people have become familiar with the basic functionality and interfaces of computers, but they are not able to manage any programming language. Therefore, they cannot develop new applications or modify current ones according to their needs. In order to address such challenges it is necessary a new paradigm, based on a multidisciplinary approach involving several types of expertise, such as software engineering, human-computer inter- action, CSCW, which are now rather fragmented and with little interaction. The resulting methods and tools can provide results useful across many application domains, such as ERP, multi-device services (accessible through both mobile and stationary devices), and professional applications.

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End-User Development: An Emerging Paradigm

While task modeling and task-based design are entering into current practice in the design of interactive software applications, there is still a lack of tools supporting the development and analysis of task models. Such tools should provide developers with ways to represent tasks, including their attributes and objects and their temporal and semantic relationships, to easily create, analyze, and modify such representations and to simulate their dynamic behavior. In this paper, we present a tool, CTTE, that provides thorough support for developing and analyzing task models of cooperative applications, which can then be used to improve the design and evaluation of interactive software applications. We discuss how we have designed this environment and report on trials of its use.

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CTTE: support for developing and analyzing task models for interactive system design

End-User Development: An Emerging Paradigm- Psychological Issues in End-User Programming- More Natural Programming Languages and Environments- What Makes End-User Development Tick? 13 Design Guidelines- An Integrated Software Engineering Approach for End-User Programmers- Component-Based Approaches to Tailorable Systems- Natural Development of Nomadic Interfaces Based on Conceptual Descriptions- End User Development of Web Applications- End-User Development: The Software Shaping Workshop Approach- Participatory Programming: Developing Programmable Bioinformatics Tools for End-Users- Challenges for End-User Development in Intelligent Environments- Fuzzy Rewriting- Breaking It Up: An Industrial Case Study of Component-Based Tailorable Software Design- End-User Development as Adaptive Maintenance- Supporting Collaborative Tailoring- EUD as Integration of Components Off-The-Shelf: The Role of Software Professionals Knowledge Artifacts- Organizational View of End-User Development- A Semiotic Framing for End-User Development- Meta-design: A Framework for the Future of End-User Development- Feasibility Studies for Programming in Natural Language- Future Perspectives in End-User Development

Fabio Paternò

Papers

Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications

ConcurTaskTrees: A Diagrammatic Notation for Specifying Task Models

End-User Development: An Emerging Paradigm

CTTE: support for developing and analyzing task models for interactive system design

End user development