{"title":"Where's love in e-waste?","authors":"T. Lodato, D. Loi","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2667198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2667198","url":null,"abstract":"This workshop focuses on how the notion of love can help explore and define participatory strategies targeted at dealing with issues surrounding e-waste. In particular, the workshop aims to leverage Participatory Design practice in transforming people's relationships with e-waste from negative affective relationships into positive ones through engagement, co-creation, and group envisioning. The workshop focuses particularly on existent e-waste, accepting it as an (unfortunate) outcome of current production strategies in need of change.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"65 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":"131120823","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":"ShambaConnect: case study on the hybrid design of an application for Kenyan extension officers","authors":"L. Mutuku, K. Kirui, M. Kamau","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662191","url":null,"abstract":"Technology is increasingly viewed as a proponent for development, including its role in improving access to information. New technology applications are being developed to disrupt traditional sectors, such as agriculture, which form the backbone of several African economies. However, we need to carefully consider the technologies we are creating, how disruptive they are to intended users' cultural and socio-economical settings and the potential for impactful usage and scaling. This is an experience paper that retrospectively reviews the development of ShambaConnect, a user-centric web- and mobile-based application built to increase the access of critical agriculture research to Kenyan extension workers and farmers. The paper outlines the use of qualitative methods, participatory ethnography and user experience tests to collect feedback from government extension workers; and the process of prototyping and testing the ShambaConnect platform based on this feedback. The paper discusses key learning points from the process including the need to consider contextual limitations such as availability of Internet, occupational habits and the key role that trust and partnerships plays in the successful development and deployment of such specialty tools.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"321 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":"122326413","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":"Towards commons design in participatory design","authors":"Sanna Marttila, Andrea Botero, J. Saad-Sulonen","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662187","url":null,"abstract":"This article probes what the Participatory Design (PD) field can gain from exploring the literature on commons. Through selected examples we point to some connections and commonalities between that literature and the PD field. In doing this, we also bring forward several contributions that this literature can make to PD in order to develop design strategies and approaches to commons design. We believe these can further PD practices and research and help PD to operate with and thrive within increasingly complex design issues and contexts.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"140 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":"126867977","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":"Stakeholder participation in the development of an electronic medical record system in Malawi","authors":"M. S. Chawani, J. Kaasbøll, Sisse Finken","doi":"10.1145/2661435.2661444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2661435.2661444","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we are concerned with stakeholders' participation in the development of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system for health facilities in Malawi, Africa. We draw on insights gained during the process of an Action Research project, which involved different stakeholders. We examine the different roles and forms of participation of these stakeholders. Through this, we illustrate how participation changes over time and co-evolves with the progress of the project. Our analysis also reveals that, in rural low-resource settings, expected end-users of EMR systems do not always have the health domain knowledge or expertise to effectively participate in such design projects. Therefore, participation of managers and other health domain experts is essential in order to supplement users' limited specialized knowledge of the domain.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"9 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":"124592211","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":"Quest for fire, water, earth and air: an interaction design bus and art installation reflecting climate change concerns through human and elemental connectedness","authors":"Alettia V. Chisin, J. V. Niekerk, M. M'Rithaa","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662229","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of travelling to open doors onto different perspectives is an antidote to living, working and socializing in spaces mediated by technologically designed artifacts. Interfaces have become ubiquitous and relationships and styles of communication have changed in keeping with this ever-present trend. The Bachelors in Technology design students, from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, have shared their concerns through their design research problems in exactly these areas. Questions regarding water safety, food security, air quality, sewerage management, marginalisation of people with disability, cultural specificity being erased by generic digital content arose; it became clear that the fragile threads connecting the ecosystem to the human system need nurturing. From an internal landscape to an external one, these students apply themselves creatively and intellectually in order to tackle real problems pro-actively; to talk less and do more. To this end, a sizable art installation piece has been conceptualized and constructed which will be unveiled with an accompanying performance piece at the 13th Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Namibia, in October 2014.","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":"129423241","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":"Harnessing the potential of ICT for collective empowerment amongst the urban underserved communities","authors":"Maria Rosa Lorini","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662248","url":null,"abstract":"The PhD research focuses on two issues of actuality in information and communication technology for Development (ICT4D) research: the role of ICTs in cultivating collective empowerment and the place of private and public access to ICTs in relation to development. The project seeks to relate these two streams from a perspective that shifts the focus from the individual to the collectivity, by addressing the question: How can ICT (and in particular the integration of mobile and public access services) contribute to the collective empowerment of underserved urban communities? The study is framed within the capability approach drawing on the writings of Sen (1999) and later scholars who expanded his work with attention to collective and relational dimensions of agency, capabilities and empowerment (Foster and Handy, 2008; Stewart, 2005). The methodological framework is shaped by a design-based research approach, rooted in exploratory ethnography (Madden, 2010) and emergent design (Lincoln and Guba, 1985).","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"23 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":"134369399","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":"From sheep to product: a design exploration into the benefit of collective creativity in upcycling waste and generating value","authors":"Kirstin Wiedow","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662227","url":null,"abstract":"The National Wool Campaign, also known as HERD, was initiated by the FABlab to regenerate the local wool industry in Namibia. Hundreds of tons of wool are discarded annually due to a lack of perceived value and application. The campaign aims to harness collective creativity across a multi-helix platform, with the aim of adding value and creating a need for the waste. The HERD exhibition area at the 13th Participatory Design Conference (PDC) will form part of the campaign, by exploring participants' interaction with recycled wool.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"47 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":"123697981","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":"ADA: analog interactive installation","authors":"Karina Smigla-Bobinski","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662219","url":null,"abstract":"ADA a self-forming artwork, participants animated under destruction sculpture, a post-industrial \"creature\", resembling a molecular hybrid from nanobiotechnology. ADA is filled with helium, floating freely in room; she is a membrane-like globe, spiked with charcoals that leave marks on the walls, ceilings and floors. However hard the participant tries to control ADA, to drive her, he would notice very soon, that ADA is an independent performer. It is a movement experienced visually, which like a computer makes an unforeseeable output after entering a command.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"48 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":"124891089","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":"Glocal participatory design: designerly approaches for trans-local climate change initiatives","authors":"H. Edeholt, Henry Mainsah","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662186","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, not only, reflects on the crucial feature of global connectedness when it comes to addressing Climate Change in an effective way. It also reflects on the just as important feature of connectedness to future generations. Arguably these two features could be at odds with, or at least be a challenge for, the most typical and espoused features of Participatory Design (PD); i.e. its focus on present and local conditions. Underpinned by this tension, this paper discuss possible ways for PD-inspired designers to scale up its present local approaches to more glocal ones, that also takes future generations into account. As a mere example, the paper introduce an attempt to nurture public democratic discourses by back-casting future scenarios to present day. The paper is not conclusive but hope to nurture a creative debate about climate related issues being necessary in, and beyond, all strands of design.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"17 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":"116273278","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}
Jeanette L. Blomberg, Penny Hagen, D. Loi, Yaw Dk Osseo-Asare, Charity Wayua, Juha Miettinen, Ayorkor Korsah
{"title":"Exploring the potential for participatory design in Africa","authors":"Jeanette L. Blomberg, Penny Hagen, D. Loi, Yaw Dk Osseo-Asare, Charity Wayua, Juha Miettinen, Ayorkor Korsah","doi":"10.1145/2662155.2662238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2662155.2662238","url":null,"abstract":"A central concern of PDC has been to understand how research, design, and development practices can be supported through the participation of the people who benefit from and are affected by technology-enabled innovations. This year's PDC in Windhoek, Namibia provides the context for a panel discussion focused on opportunities and challenges for adopting participatory approaches that situate technology-enabled innovations in Africa's distinct and varied locales. Many technology organizations recently have established research, design, and development centers in Africa and have initiated projects with the desire to engage the talent and imaginative futures of this diverse region. This panel brings together researchers and practitioners working in Africa who are helping to direct their organizations efforts to locate the \"center of design\" in the settings and milieu where they work. Panelist will offer their perspectives on what it has meant for them and their organization to situate research, design, and development in Africa with a focus on their efforts to integrate participatory approaches. In addition they will discuss how to strengthen ties among their organizations, academic researchers, and institutions that are committed to participatory design and development to address the particular challenges of the African region.","PeriodicalId":314843,"journal":{"name":"Participatory Design Conference","volume":"6 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":"114574970","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}