Studies of algorithmic decision-making in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
and related fields of research increasingly recognize an analogy between AI and …

This paper can be framed within the growing interest in the public dimension of technology
design: it proposes a framework for the public design of urban technologies by elaborating …

The paper concerns the development of digitally-mediated technologies that value social
cooperation as a common good rather than as a source of revenue and accumulation. The …

This study examines caseworkers' and citizens' interactions when assembling resource
development applications for citizens with serious health and personal issues. As with other …

The integration of user-centred design and Agile development is becoming increasingly
common in companies and appears promising. However, it may also present some critical …

Studies on educational technology are often focused on whether a certain technology could
improve learning without sufficient consideration of surrounding factors that operate in …

This paper presents spazioD, a design case around the topic of dyslexia. Building on
selected contributions from the literature on infrastructuring in participatory design and …

Digital technologies have an increasing, often debated, role in our world: in this book we are
concerned with the relation between technologies and the common, the ensemble of …

This chapter builds upon the need to adopt a more comprehensive approach when
designing computer-supported technology to mediate social interaction between older …

The new poor are a group of people composed by precarious workers, working poor, NEETs
and people left behind by the safety nets, accounting for approximately 25% of the European …