Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World

• Introduction.- Part I: The Commercial Perspective.- Socially Embedded Technology- The Pathway to Sustainable Product Development.- Elastic Workplace Design.- Patterns of Work: A Pragmatic Approach.- Part II: The Challenge of Change.- Situated Computing.- Meta-Design: Transforming and Enriching.- Practice-Based Computing.- A View of Causation for CSW.-  Analyzing and Supporting Cooperative Practices.- Part III: Design Issues.- Interaction Design at Itsme.- Building Socially Embedded Technologies- Exploring Challenging Environments.- Design for Agency, Adaptivity and Reciprocity.- Part IV:  Social and Organisational Complexity.- Studying Technologies in Practice.- Designing for Lived Health.- Organisational IT Managed from the Shop Floor - Developing Participatory Design In The Organisational Arena.- Concluding Remarks: New Pathways.

"This book is quite interesting in presenting the role of ICTs in shaping social traits organizational cyber infrastructure, and services. ... The book will certainly attract practitioners, tool developers, academics, and researchers because of its discourse on the social dimensions of embedding ICTs, identifying policy design gaps and ways to address these gaps." (Harekrishna Misra, Computing Reviews, November, 2015)