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PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 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 5 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 5 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
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Experience clip: method for user participation and evaluation of mobile concepts
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...
Minna Isomursu, Kari Kuutti, Soili Väinä...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The impact of participation in information system design: a comparison of contextual placements
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...
Magnus Irestig, Henrik Eriksson, Toomas Timpka
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Socio-technical walkthrough: designing technology along work processes
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...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Social creativity: turning barriers into opportunities for collaborative design
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...
Gerhard Fischer
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Ways of grounding imagination
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...
Monika Büscher, Mette Agger Eriksen, Jannie F...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Facilitating collaboration through design games
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...
Eva Brandt, Jörn Messeter
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
On the spot experiments within healthcare
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...
Erling Björgvinsson, Per-Anders Hillgren