@inproceedings{2f8b66b3a1434d45952cae9f42fb8c84,
title = "The Role of Objects in the Constitution of Collaborative Spaces",
abstract = "This paper examines collaborative processes involving users and product development practitioners, in virtual co-creative spaces. Qualifications of roles are entailed in and through the mediation of objects, as they serve part and parcel of the coming-into-being of the collaboration. By focusing on the role played by objects in collaborative spaces, more specifically an Internet-based forum established by a medical device manufacturer for users of its products, the paper makes a threefold argument concerning the active role played by objects in collaborative processes: 1) the premises for user involvement in such spaces is subject to behind-the-scenes qualification processes directed at particular user configurations; 2) virtual spaces are being re-configured by users{\textquoteright} and practitioners{\textquoteright} interactions through diverse references of objects; and 3) users and practitioners qualify the content of these spaces by negotiating the meaning of the objects that both engage. Thus, such collaborative processes bear with them potential trade-offs and inherent tensions by way of boundary drawings and reordering of roles, articulated through qualification.",
author = "\{Balatsas Lekkas\}, Angelos and Yutaka Yoshinaka",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-952-60-5236-6",
series = "Aalto University publication series Science and Technology",
number = "15/2013",
pages = "473--484",
editor = "Riita Smeds and Olivier Irrmann",
booktitle = "Co-Create 2013. The Boundary-Crossing Conference on Co-Design in Innovation",
publisher = "Aalto University",
note = "CO-CREATE 2013 : The Boundary-Crossing Conference on Co-Design in Innovation ; Conference date: 16-06-2013 Through 19-06-2013",
}