P Lauritsen | PubMed Health

PubMed1997

Computer programs and clinical contexts: two computer based exercises for cognitive rehabilitation.

Two examples taken from computer programs for cognitive rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenia show how different groups of clinicians attribute different meanings to the same exercise. This illustrates that the meaning of an artifact or a technology is socially constructed and thereby intimately bound to the context of use. This perspective has implications on issues such as the design process, the assessment of technology and the issue of standardization.

Cognition Disorders↗

PubMed1997

Participatory design at a psychiatric daycenter: potentials and problems.

This paper discusses a system development project, based on a participatory approach, which engaged clients at a psychiatric daycenter. The goal was to develop a computer based presentation of the center and thereby to investigate the possibility of enabling the users of the daycenter to formulate their requirements for such a system. The paper discusses the potentials and problems in establishing a common ground to work from and conclude that while there are specific benefits of engaging psychiatric clients in design projects, especially in connection with feelings of ownership, there are also pit-falls of which we should be aware. Particularly, the importance of understanding the different roles that participants acquire in a design process is stressed.

Attitude to Computers↗