The contents of the latest issue of:
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 22, Issue 2, April-June 2010
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1546-2234 EISSN: 1546-5012
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/joeuc

Editor-in-Chief: M. Adam Mahmood, University of Texas - El Paso, USA

EDITORIAL NOTE

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Special Issue: Matters on End-User Development II
Guest Editors:
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany 
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen, Germany
Mary-Beth Rosson, Penn State University, USA	
Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands

PAPER ONE
Woad: a Framework to Enable the End-User Development of Coordination-oriented Functionalities

Federico Cabitza, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Carla Simone, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

In this article, we present WOAD, a framework that was inspired and partly validated within a 2-year observational case study at a major teaching hospital. We present the WOAD framework by stating its main and motivating rationales, outlining its high-level architecture and then introducing its denotational language, LWOAD. We propose LWOAD to support users of an electronic document system in declaratively expressing, specifying and implementing content- and event-based mechanisms that fulfill coordinative requirements and make users aware of relevant conditions. Our focus addresses (a) the user-friendly and yet formal expression of local coordinative practices based on the work context; (b) the promotion of awareness of both these conventions and the context to enable actors to quickly respond; (c) the full deployment of coordination-oriented and context-aware functionalities into legacy electronic document systems. We give examples of LWOAD mechanisms taken from the case st
udy and discuss their impact from the EUD perspective.

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PAPER TWO
Entering the Clubhouse: Case Studies of Young Programmers Joining the Online Scratch Communities

Yasmin B. Kafai, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Deborah A. Fields, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
William Q. Burke, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Previous efforts in end-user development have focused on facilitating the mechanics of learning programming, leaving aside social and cultural factors equally important in getting youth engaged in programming. As part of a 4-month long ethnographic study, we followed two 12-year-old participants as they learned the programming software Scratch and its associated file-sharing site, scratch.mit.edu, in an after-school club and class. In our discussion, we focus on the role that agency, membership, and status played in their joining and participating in local and online communities of programmers.

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PAPER THREE
Mutual Development: The Software Engineering Context of End-User Development

Anders I. Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway
Renate Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway

The article presents and analyzes data from a case study in customer-initiated software product development. We have observed and participated in system development activities in a commercial software house (company) over a period of two years. The company produces project-planning tools for the oil and gas industry, and relies on interaction with customers for further development of its products. Our main research question is how customers and professional developers engage in mutual development mediated by shared software tools (products and support systems). We have used interviews with developers and customers as our main source of data, and identified the activities (from use to development) where customers have contributed to development. We analyze our findings in terms of co-configuration, meta-design and modding to name and compare the various stages of development (adaptation, generalization, improvement request, specialization, and tailoring).

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PAPER FOUR
Appropriation Infrastructure: Mediating Appropriation and Production Work

Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

End User Development offers technological flexibility to encourage the appropriation of software applications within specific contexts of use. Appropriation needs to be understood as a phenomenon of many collaborative and creative activities. To support appropriation, we propose integrating communication infrastructure into software application that follows an "easy-to-collaborate"-principle. Such an appropriation infrastructure stimulates the experience sharing among a heterogeneous product community and supports the situated development of usages. Taking the case of the BSCWeasel groupware, we demonstrate how an appropriation infrastructure can be realized. Empirical results from the BSCWeasel project demonstrate the impact of such an infrastructure on the appropriation and design process. Based on these results, we argue that the social construction of IT artifacts should be tightly integrated in the material construction of IT artifacts in bridging design and use discours
es. 

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Sincerely,

M. Adam Mahmood

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