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PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Examining a planning discourse: how a manager represents issues within a planning frame and how the others could do the same
The aim of Participatory Design (PD) is to involve the users in the design. Even though the research has shown the success of PD projects in empowering users, little has been said...
Jarmo Sarkkinen
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Personas is not applicable: local remedies interpreted in a wider context
One of the major problems with participatory design is that it is extremely difficult to apply it to current developments. Software development for the mass market is one aspect o...
Kari Rönkkö, Mats Hellman, Britta Kiland...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Lost in translation: a critical analysis of actors, artifacts, agendas, and arenas in participatory design
As computer technologies start to permeate the everyday activities of a continuously growing population, social and technical as well as political and legal issues will surface. P...
Rogério De Paula
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
From small scale to large scale user participation: a case study of participatory design in e-government systems
Most experiments with participative design are with small scale, stand alone and not very strategic applications of ICT in organizations. However, modern ICT applications are incr...
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Peter Van den Besselaar
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field
As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, there is a great deal of hope about the use of information technology to achieve positive community outcomes like increasin...
Cecelia Merkel, Lu Xiao, Umer Farooq, Craig H. Gan...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The promise and perils of a participatory approach to developing an open source community learning network
This paper describes and analyses the early developmental stages of a community learning network based in an urban community and social service agency. With government funding, th...
Robert Luke, Andrew Clement, Randall Terada, Domin...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Participatory programming and the scope of mutual responsibility: balancing scientific, design and software commitment
Over the past seven years, we have been conducting a variety of participatory design activities with research biologists, programmers, and bioinformaticians at the Institut Pasteu...
Catherine Letondal, Wendy E. Mackay
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
The weight of space: participatory design research for configuring habitable space for new arrival women in Hong Kong
When arriving to Hong Kong from China, the first difficulty of the new arrival women of the grassroots class is usually environmental stress. Their socio-economic situations often...
Jackie Yan-Chi Kwok
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Artful infrastructuring in two cases of community PD
In this paper, we use the notions of artful integrations and infrastructure to analyze two cases of community Participatory Design ‘in the wild’. Though the communities are qu...
Helena Karasti, Anna-Liisa Syrjänen