Culture of Participation in the Digital Age Empowering – End Users to Improve their Quality of Life

Abstract

This special issue of the IxD&A journal intends to expand the results of the workshop CoPDA 2013 (http://homes.di.unimi.it/cslab/copda). Digital Age is defined by the use of technology to support the way people communicate and interact in their everyday and working lives. Digital age therefore offers new and exciting opportunities to people, but it also presents new challenges to researchers and designers. Issues such as utility, efficiency, productivity, trust and other human values should be considered in a holistic sense oriented to enhance the 'quality of life' of people. The goal of this workshop is to promote the study of the new realities provided by the emerging of digital age. The following questions will be explored (but no limited to):