This paper focuses on evaluation in Participatory Design (PD), and especially upon how the
central aims of mutual learning, empowerment, democracy and workplace quality have been …

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

Of late, there has been a renewed and reinvigorated exchange of ideas across science and
technology studies and participatory design, emerging from a shared interest in 'publics'. In …

Feminism is a natural ally to interaction design, due to its central commitments to issues
such as agency, fulfillment, identity, equity, empowerment, and social justice. In this paper, I …

PD questions major assumptions about technologies in workplaces, communities, homes,
and social institutions. It is not coincidental that PD offers these challenges at a time when …

Abstract The field of Participatory Design (PD) has greatly diversified and we see a broad
spectrum of approaches and methodologies emerging. However, to foster its role in …

The emergence of community-based Participatory Design as a distinctive field of
Participatory Design is relatively recent. In this chapter we trace major themes in …

Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

Participatory design–the direct involvement of end-users and other stakeholders in design–
has become a standard design paradigm in informatics, that is, in develo** information …

In this paper, we explore the concept of participatory design from a different viewpoint by
drawing on an African philosophy of humanness-Ubuntu-, and African rural community …