HCI researchers have been gradually shifting attention from individual users to communities
when engaging in research, design, and system development. However, our field has yet to …

This paper examines literature in the twin domains of participatory interactive systems
design and participatory approaches to international development. As interactive systems …

Improving co-design methods implies that we need to understand those methods, paying
attention to not only the effect of method choices on design outcomes, but also how methods …

Traditional PD research offers a range of methods for participant engagement. Yet little is
shared of the microdynamics of participation at its most intense, when the designer as …

This paper is about the work we do to create productive partnerships in community settings:
develo** relationships, demonstrating commitments, and overcoming personal and …

This paper positions relation expertise as a core competence in participatory design. It is an
expertise that demands the participatory designer to stimulate the emergence of loosely …

This paper is about the development of systems whose end users are professional people
working in a specific domain (eg, medicine, geology, mechanical engineering); they are …

Especially in develo** regions, parents are rarely given a direct voice in the design of
digital maternal and child health (MCH) interventions. Instead, MCH needs and …

This paper reports on how prospective users may be involved in the design of entertaining
educational computer games. The paper illustrates an approach, which combines traditional …

We set out to support three rural communities in Uganda to manage their water supplies
using a locally relevant and fit-for-use technological intervention developed with the …