To support the shift from technology-driven to experience-driven design in a company developing work tools (materials handling equipment), we developed and applied a participatory approach to increase awareness and buy-in of experience design and related methods at the company. We 1) present user experience (UX) design guidelines developed for both designers and managers based on the participat...

Article history: Received 15 September 2006 Received in revised form 26 January 2007 Accepted 18 February 2007 Scientific datasets are often generated and used by “communities”, or groups of users and creators. These communities, today often virtual, can include researchers, decision-makers, and the general public; participants in these communities may contribute different components during var...

This contribution builds on results from the EU-Project TAMI (Technology Assessment in Europe: Between Method and Impact). The general question to be answered in TAMI was ”How can TA-institutions optimise the impact of their projects?”. TAMI tackled this issue from two perspectives. The first one was straight forward: TA-practitioners must optimise their projects in order to increase their (?) ...

This paper outlines one of the projects from my PhD research which proposes the use of tangible design methods in participatory and creative scenarios to enable the conceptualization of uses for "the internet of things" that is to say the contemporary interest in connecting everyday objects together in networks, for the home, in social settings or over the internet. This is related to the incre...

Motivational aspects are core to successful knowledge sharing and collaborative learning experiences. However, it still remains one of the great challenges to overcome motivational barriers when it comes to introducing information systems for collaborative learning at the workplace. In the context of an international research project we have taken motivational aspects into account during the de...

To ensure network-centric and other systems provide relevant capability to the C2 user, effort needs to be expended in understanding the requirements, designing the appropriate solution, developing the capability and implementing for acceptance. The cognitive systems engineering and the software systems engineering communities struggle with the difficulties of understanding a domain and its cha...

The era of community-based participatory research (CBPR) began years ago. It may have even started with the American Revolution, when angry colonists rallied under a banner of " taxation without representation " and demanded that their unwelcome despot change his ways. Much more recently, in the early 1990s, disability activists brought the slogan " nothing about us without us " to common usage...