Understanding and Developing User Involvement in a Public Authority Jan Gulliksen and Elina Eriksson Uppsala University Dept. of Information Technology Human-Computer Interaction http://www.it.uu.se/research/hci
The Public Authority 500 employees Registering company information No governmental funding Mainframe, manual handling Development through IT-department User support
Computer-Supported Administrative Work and Health Factors
The Workshop Discussing user involvement in IT-development 17 participants Defining words used during workshop
Problems General goals contradicts health and usability issues Lack of time Attitudes Tech-lingo User support or superman user?
Solutions User pool Man years in budget Education and Lobbyism Less formal specification
Future Work At this Public Authority The other Authorities