INTRODUCTION Community-based participatory research is a partnership approach to research that seeks to equally involve community members, organisational representatives and academic partners throughout the research process in a coequal and mutually beneficial partnership. To date, no published article has synthesised the best practices for community-based participatory research practices with ...

This paper presents some thoughts about the role of participatory design, now and in the future, based on the Beck (2002). My main proposal is that research-based participatory design is needed to question technology and propose alternatives.

Participatory design involves four types of actors: designers, human factors experts,managers and users. This paper explores gaps between theory and practice based on myexperience with two industrial participatory design settings.

OBJECTIVE To verify the impact of a health education program on elderly patients' knowledge of cardiovascular diseases. METHODS A qualitative study with a participatory approach. The population was composed of seven elderly patients who took part in eight educational interventions on issues related to cardiovascular health. The data was analyzed with thematic content analysis. RESULTS The c...

Due to the increasing demand for citizen participation in public decision processes, participatory budgets are becoming popular in many municipalities. As there is little methodology available for this type of activities and Information Technology are scarcely used in them, we provide a formalization of participatory budgets, as well as describe two models to support these processes and their c...

Greater attention needs to be given to ethics related to the use, organisation and coordination of participatory forms of water planning. Working with diverse groups of people on water management issues requires the ability to understand and collectively make a range of decisions on the content, design and implementation of participatory processes. Ethical questions and sensitivities arise in s...