User involvement in innovation processes

Harald Rohracher, IFF/IFZ, Austria: User involvement in technological innovations – an introduction Part I. User Involvement and Public Participation James Stewart & Robin Williams, RCSS, University of Edinburgh: The Wrong Trousers? Beyond the Design Fallacy: Social Learning and the User Jaap Jelsma, University of Twente / ECN, The Netherlands: Bridging Gaps between Technology and Behaviour: a heuristic exercise in the field of energy efficiency in households Leo Hennen, ITAS / TAB, Germany: Get the public involved? Participatory methods in technology assessment Imre Hronsky, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary: Parallelities in participatory approaches in production and public administration Part II. The Gender Perspective Janice McLaughlin, University of Newcastle, UK: Gendering Technological Change in Organisations Ellen Balka, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada: Tidying up Loose Ends: theoretical and practical issues related to women’s participation in technological design Els Rommes, University of Twente, The Netherlands: Taming Technology, Shaping Gender. The Domestication of Amsterdam’s Digital City Part III. Limits to User Participation Patrick Feng, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada: Challenges to user participation – the case of technical standards Kornelia Konrad, Centre for Innovation Research in the Utility Sector, EAWAG, Switzerland: A Circle of Uncertainties: Dilemmas of User Involvement in Highly Dynamic Innovation Processes – evidence from case studies in e-commerce. Luis Aparicio, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France: Rhetoric and the Public(s) Engagement with Technology. The Promoter’ Political Shaping of the Strasbourg Tramway Project (1989-1994) Part III. Strategies of User Participation and Case Studies Matthias Weber, Austrian Research Centres Seibersdorf, Austria: Innovation diffusion, social networks and the self-organisation of large socio-technical systems Lara Tauritz, University of Twente, The Netherlands: The Tales of the Enschede digital service desk Simon Guy, Robert Evans and Simon Marvin, University of Newcastle, UK: Mobile Readings of the City: Plans, Users and Sustainable Transport Futures In gleicher Ausstattung erschienen: Jamison, A. & Rohracher, H. (Eds.): Technology Studies and Sustainable Development. München und Wien: Profil-Verlag 2002, 438 pp., Euro (D) 30,00, ISBN 3-89019-540-7 („Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung“, Vol. 39),