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...
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...
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...
This paper describes experiences from using a field testing technique for collecting user experience information for evaluating mobile applications used in everyday life. Our tech...
To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
How can the documentation of concepts for complex sociotechnical systems, such as the adoption of groupware, be incorporated into practices of PD? Documents are important in suppo...
Thomas Herrmann, Gabriele Kunau, Kai-Uwe Loser, Na...
Design is a ubiquitous activity. The complexity of design problems requires communities rather than individuals to address, frame, and solve them. These design communities have to...
This paper discusses and evaluates use of different participatory design methods in relation to addressing the challenge of grounding imagination. It presents reflections on the u...
In recent years both companies and research communities call for collaborative work practices and user-centered approaches in various design fields. There are several challenges a...
This paper reports the value of On the Spot Experiments with self-produced content and the use of technology within healthcare. On the Spot Experiments are experiments conducted i...