Title
An Approach To The Evaluation Of Usefulness As A Social Construct Using Technological Frames
Abstract
This article describes an investigation of the way usefulness of an information system is shaped by sociocultural factors in a work context. It presents technological frames as a conceptual tool that helps to understand usefulness from this point of view. It suggests that developers and users shape their experience of the usefulness of a system through these technological frames. This is illustrated with a qualitative study, in which developers' expectations of the usefulness of an enterprise resource planning system differed from those of users, who experienced the usefulness of the same system in diverse ways. Technological frames are proposed as an analysis framework for assessing how context and local culture shape the utility and usability of systems in situ, that is, once they are deployed to their actual contexts of use.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1207/s15327590ijhc2201-02_8
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
22
1-2
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1044-7318
4
0.50
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José L. Abdelnour-Nocera15617.67
Lynne Dunckley216319.91
Helen Sharp3130098.84