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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...