'High quality user requirements are positively correlated with successful design outcomes, but engaging stakeholders within low-income contexts can present financial and time-related challenges to product developers from non-local industrial and academic institutions with limited knowledge of...

Introduction: About This Dissertation -- Theoretical Foundations: Key Concepts of This Dissertation -- Starting from Scratch: A Taxonomy to Identify Design Elements of PIPs -- From Scratchboard to Opening: An Action Research Study to Explore the Design Process of PIPs -- Managing Continuous...

The existing research on the behavior of user innovators has focused almost exclusively on younger users. In light of the demographic shift and the increasing importance of the "Silver Market" segment (customers 55 years plus), we analyzed whether important determinants of user innovator...