{"title":"Attuning to Ma (between-ness) in designing","authors":"Y. Akama","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662179","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes the position of plurality and 'between-ness' in designing, to sharpen our perception for things that emerge in-between that cannot be grasped and thus, falls outside of consciousness. Attuning to this presence is important because designing is an exploration and articulation of concerns and understanding among people, and specifically in PD, involved in mediating socio-material relations. In order to articulate this 'between-ness', the paper borrows the notion of Ma in Japanese philosophy to attune into a way of sensing the relational, processual and atmospheric. This notion is shared with the design community as a way to situate that we are, more often than not, working and designing 'between-ness'.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123134785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Dittrich, R. D. L. Harpe, M. Korpela, Gertrudes Macueve, R. Bekele, J. Kaasbøll
{"title":"Participation for development","authors":"Y. Dittrich, R. D. L. Harpe, M. Korpela, Gertrudes Macueve, R. Bekele, J. Kaasbøll","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662207","url":null,"abstract":"Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is more and more promoted as a driver and facilitator of economic growth and development in low and middle income countries. ICT for Development (ICT4D) though has mixed successes. Sustainability of solutions and usability respectively usefulness for the intended beneficiaries have been reported as causes. Participatory approaches to development have been proposed to address these causes. Participatory Design (PD) seems like a perfect fit. However, at the Participatory Design Conferences, research that addresses PD in low and middle income countries is rare. The workshop aims at bringing together the PD researchers working with under-privileged communities and attracting researchers from the ICT4D communities to the PD conference. The goal is to share experiences and start a discussion on how participation, ICT and development might relate.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"os-52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127790531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claus Bossen, Christian Dindler, J. Garde, V. Pipek
{"title":"Evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects of participatory design projects","authors":"Claus Bossen, Christian Dindler, J. Garde, V. Pipek","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662210","url":null,"abstract":"This workshop aims to engage scholars and practitioners interested in user involvement in sharing experiences and reflections upon evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects of Participatory Design (PD) projects. Despite having 'people' as core interest, PD projects rarely venture into systematic evaluation of what the involved parties gained, how to ensure sustainability of initiatives beyond a project, or assessing long-term effects. Many PD projects aim to design a technology, provide a proof-of-concept, or assess a method or technique for involving people in design processes. While these are all laudable aims, we believe attention to evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects could provide fruitful feedback on these issues as well as further ensure that PD initiatives last beyond the singular project through acquired skills of participants and in the organization. Through this workshop, we aim to spur discussions and reflections upon gains, sustainability and long-term effects that can strengthen the lasting outcomes of PD initiatives.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132876812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Powers of ten: acquiring sense of ownership in grow","authors":"Yuki Uchida, Fumiko Ichikawa, H. Tamura","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662231","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on the 10N Model, a participatory design approach, and a social innovation initiative in which the model has been applied. By introducing an actual application, the paper will show how the model helps a social innovation project to be sustained autonomously whilst it continues to increase its scale particularly at its infancy. The model also aims to solve challenges that arise from the traditional participatory approach, such as how to involve people beyond the existing community, how to foster strong and long-lasting sense of ownership among participants, and how to ensure diversity among them. The actual results and further challenges of the model will then be described, by giving examples of its use during a social innovation project concerning disability and inclusion in Fukuoka, Japan.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133730092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design with the feet: walking methods and participatory design","authors":"A. Kanstrup, P. Bertelsen, J. Madsen","doi":"10.1145/2661435.2661441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2661435.2661441","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of walking methods and their relation to participatory design (PD). The paper includes a study of walking methods found in the literature and an empirical study of transect walks in a PD project. From this analysis, we identify central attributes of, and challenges to, PD walks. Walking with people in the context of design is a natural activity for the participatory designer, who acknowledges the importance of immersion and relationships in design. However, the various intentions of walking approaches indicate an underacknowledged awareness of walking methods. With this study, we take a step towards a methodological framework for \"design with the feet\" in PD.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125147626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Martinez, Randy Kemp, Raven Kemp, Joe French, R. Esler
{"title":"Radio Healer: hacking the Wii remote to perform indigenous re-imagined ceremony","authors":"C. Martinez, Randy Kemp, Raven Kemp, Joe French, R. Esler","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662223","url":null,"abstract":"Radio Healer is a performance project in residence at the Pueblo Grande Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. During Radio Healer performances, indigenous electronic tools (many of which are created from salvaged materials and hacked Nintendo Wii Remotes) are performed together with traditional indigenous instruments. The convergence of traditional and contemporary indigenous instruments demonstrates value-laden tensions between notions of what is considered traditional and contemporary. At the same time Radio Healer illustrates that despite these tensions, traditional and contemporary technology can connect to each other in useful and meaningful ways (Figure 1). By creating this rivaling complexity, Radio Healer provides an indigenous ground for inclusive public dialogues. Following performances, project artists facilitate dialogues that provide opportunities for audience interpretations of the performance, which often unpack Radio Healer as a metaphor for various lived experiences within the contexts of place, connected-knowledge, culture, relationships, and pervasive media.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114857625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaches to participatory design in Africa in the age of cloud computing","authors":"Vincent Shaw, Jørn A. Braa","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662180","url":null,"abstract":"In this short paper we explore new approaches to participatory software development in the age of cloud computing and in the perspective of empowering end-users and user organisations in developing countries. In the past, ownership of a system was closely aligned with proximity to the system, and having it \"under my control on my computer\". With the introduction of cloud computing, while the distance between the system and the user has increased infinitely, the challenge is to maintain the ownership that users feel they have over the system. Specifically, we explore 2 key ways in which the infinite distance associated with cloud computing is overcome to support local ownership \"on the ground\". First, how, despite the system being stored \"in the cloud\", various intermediaries are emerging to ensure that the software continues to evolve in response to the requirements of users \"on the ground\". Secondly, we examine design principles that are becoming embedded in the system that empower users to effect change. This paper draws on the long-standing Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) action research project that has unfolded over the last 20 years. The empirical basis for this paper draws on the technical and political efforts of the HISP network in designing, deploying and supporting the maintenance and use of the District Health Information Software for use in the public health domain mainly in developing country contexts.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128903173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Boxstillation\" and the war on packaging","authors":"K. Cowley","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662224","url":null,"abstract":"Deconstructed and reconstructed packaging materials create an installation of plastic netting; suspended and piled-up boxes lit by ultra-violet and LED lighting. Post-World War text, Cargo (DF), parodies names of everyday commodities, as text cues prompt the participation of a comedian, the Merry Prankster, in a satire of the contemporary \"shopping experience\". An urban soundscape of random African suburban sounds forms the auditory backdrop to the comedian's humor and actions. The performance, and documentation thereof, including any subsequent interactions, is recorded and played back with the installation. Through humor, observation (and hopefully participation in a mock shopping experience) the observers experience and question their role in either contributing to packaging waste or consider taking a stand as conscientious consumers. It is through consumer participation that the global populace determines the levels of pollution and environmental degradation of their home, planet Earth. Wake up and see the garbage!","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132431445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Terry Costantino, Steven LeMay, Linnea Vizard, Heather Moore, D. Renton, S. Gornall, Ian Strang
{"title":"Participatory design of public library e-services","authors":"Terry Costantino, Steven LeMay, Linnea Vizard, Heather Moore, D. Renton, S. Gornall, Ian Strang","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662232","url":null,"abstract":"Public libraries are in crisis-mode trying to figure out their future. One area they are struggling with is their role and relationship to the Internet -- their e-services. This study engages public library staff and vendors in the redesign of online account management features as a way to explore participation from the perspective of the participants. Grounded in our experience, we explore what we mean by participation and identify barriers to achieving our ideal vision of participation. Mid-way through the project, we have begun to grapple with fundamental questions about participation and design and have identified some concerns we have, personally and organizationally, about involving library members in productive design activities, beyond their inclusion in generative and evaluative activities.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121086128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utopias lost and futures-in-the-making: marginal notes on innovation, design and democracy","authors":"P. Ehn","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662214","url":null,"abstract":"the contemporary scandinavian collective designer some forty years of age or so norwegian of origin focusing on democracy and worker participation actively searching alternative futures through collaborative design things at the time when computers entered the shop floor threatening to deskill workers and tighten managerial control pioneered at “kongsberg weapon factory” (maybe not the most likely place for an experiment in democracy and participation)","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125954351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}