Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development

Preface PART 1: HUMAN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 2 On the Emergence of Techno-Religious Spaces: Implications for Design and End Users 3 Towards Lifeworld-Oriented Information Systems Development 4 Understanding the Business Client ? Systems Developer Relationship: A Power Perspective 5 A Semiotic Analysis of Interactions between End Users and Information Systems 6 Information Systems Development as an Intellectual Process: Designers' Perceptions of Users PART 2: METHODOLOGY 7 Participatory Design in Information Systems Development 8 Reflecting, Tinkering, and Tailoring: Implications for Theories of Information System Design 9 Evolutionary Application Development: Tools to Make Tools and Boundary Crossing 10 Design Science Research for User-Centeredness 11 "20 years a-Growing": Revisiting From Human Factors to Human Actors PART 3: PRACTICE 12 Three Levels of Failure: Analysing a Workflow Management System 13 When and How Do We Become a "User"?

14 Use of Mobile IS: New Requirements for the IS Development Process 15 Reframing Online Shopping through Innovative and Organic User-Oriented Design 16 Stakeholder Involvement and Team Working in Systems Development Practice 17 Epilogue

Hannakaisa Isomäki (Ph.D., Information Systems, Tampere University, 2002) is Research Director and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, Jyväskylä University, Finland. She also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Arts & Design. Her research interests intersect topics of Human-centred Information Systems, User Experience, E-learning, and Information Security Culture. She has authored several compilation works and published over 80 research articles such as publications in Information Systems Journal, International Journal of Technology Human Interaction and Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. She has also been involved in many national and international scientific evaluation tasks.Samuli Pekkola (Ph.D., Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, 2003) is Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on individual users in different manifestations of information systems, information systems management, and around participatory information systems development methods. His main research interests include MIS, OSS for public sector, ISD, PD, CSCW, HCI and enterprise architectures. His research has been published in journals such as The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Organizational and End-user Computing, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He is the Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.