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Ehn, Pelle (2008): DOC and the power of things and representatives. In: DOC08 2008. pp. 31-32. Available online

“Social life is communication. To live in a society means sharing things. And this we do not through, but in, communication. That is how things become common, and hence how communities are formed.”

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Moyes, Jackie, Buur, Jacob, Jarrett, Caroline, Ehn, Pelle, Howard, Steve and Brereton, Margot (2005): Book smarts meet street smarts: the best of both worlds. In: Proceedings of OZCHI05, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2005. p. 1. Available online

“This panel will discuss how academia can contribute to industry practice and how industry practitioners can contribute to academia. We will focus in particular on how theories and practices are formed and shaped in different settings. We will discuss when academic theories and practices help industry, when and why they are discarded, and how they are transformed in industry settings.”

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Ehn, Pelle and Badham, Richard (2002): Participatory Design and the Collective Designer. In: Binder, Thomas, Gregory, Judith and Wagner, Ina (eds.) Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 23-25 June, 2002, Malmö, Sweden. pp. 1-10. Available online

“Is and should there be a place for the Aristotelian virtue of phronesis in contemporary participatory design practice and for design as an act of anxious love? In this paper we take a critical look at participatory design and reflect upon the virtues of the collective designer. Towards a background of the dreams and lost utopias of some related collective designers of the past: the Bauhaus, Nordic design and Scandinavian collective systems design, we suggest that our attention should not be on the great espoused design ideals but on the politics-in-practice of the collective designer. The really interesting collective designer in practice might very well be much more of a “machiavellian” reflective practitioner than an objective scientist or politically correct utopist.”

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Bodker, Susanne, Ehn, Pelle, Sjogren, Dan and Sundblad, Yngve (2000): Cooperative Design Perspectives on 20 years with "the Scandinavian IT Design Model. In: Proceedings of the First Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2000. .

“The authors were all involved in the 'seminal' Utopia project, 1981-85, where Co-operative Design methodology, involving users very early in the design process, had an early development and application in the use of computers.”

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Ehn, Pelle and Lowgren, Jonas (1996): The Qualiteque: Systems at an Exhibition. In Interactions, 3 (3) pp. 53-55

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Ehn, Pelle (1992): Scandinavian design: On participation and skill. In: Adler, P. and Winograd, Terry "Usability: Turning technologies into tools". Oxford University Press pp. 96-132

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Ehn, Pelle and Kyng, Morten (1991): Cardboard Computers. In: Greenbaum, Joan and Kyng, Morten "Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems". Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

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Johnson, Jeff, Ehn, Pelle, Grudin, Jonathan, Nardi, Bonnie A., Thoresen, Kari and Suchman, Lucy A. (1990): Participatory Design of Computer Systems. In: Carrasco, Jane and Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 141-144.

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Ehn, Pelle (1988): Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts. Stockholm, Arbetslivscentrum

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Bannon, Liam, Ehn, Pelle, Greif, Irene, Howard, Robert, Kling, Rob and Stefik, Mark (1988): CSCW -- What Does it Mean?. In: Greif, Irene (ed.) Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work September 26 - 28, 1988, Portland, Oregon, United States. pp. 191-192.

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Bødker, Susanne, Knudsen, Jørgen L., Kyng, Morten, Ehn, Pelle and Madsen, Kim Halskov (1988): Computer Support for Cooperative Design. In: Greif, Irene (ed.) Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work September 26 - 28, 1988, Portland, Oregon, United States. pp. 377-394.

“Computer support for design as cooperative work is the subject of our discussion in the context of our research program on Computer Support in Cooperative Design and Communication. We outline our theoretical perspective on design as cooperative work, and we exemplify our approach with reflections from a project on computer support for envisionment in design - the APLEX and its use. We see envisionment facilities as support for both experiments with and communication about the future use situation. As a background we sketch the historical roots of our program - the Scandinavian collective resource approach to design and use of computer artifacts, and make some critical reflections on the rationality of computer support for cooperative work.”

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Ehn, Pelle (1988): Playing the Language-Games of Design and Use on Skill and Participation. In: Allen, Robert (ed.) Proceedings of the Conference on Office Information Systems 1988 March 23-25, 1988, Palo Alto, California, USA. pp. 142-157.

“This paper deals with computers and cooperative work. Focus in not on applications for cooperative work, but on the cooperative process of designing such and other computer applications. Focus is on the role of skill and participation in design as a creative and communicative process. The paper suggests a need to go beyond the Cartesian philosophical assumptions of rationalistic reasoning as epistemology and dualism as ontology, so strongly embedded in traditional design methods. There are many philosophical candidates for such a reinterpretation. In this paper I have chosen to elaborate on language-games and the ordinary language philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Hence, focus is on the shift in design from language as description towards language as action. Some consequences of such a shift is illustrated with reflections on examples from UTOPIA (a research and development project for skill enhancing computer based tools for graphic workers), and with design ideas on an application simulator from a new research programme on Cooperative Design and Communication.”

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Bjerknes, Gro, Ehn, Pelle and Kyng, Morten (eds.) (1987): Computers and Democracy - a Scandinavian Challenge. Aldershot, England, Avebury

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Publication period:1987-2008
Publication count:13
Number of co-authors:25

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Pelle Ehn's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Jonathan Grudin:92
Rob Kling:52
Bonnie A. Nardi:52

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