Participatory methods provide an increasingly accepted path to integrated assessment. This paper reflects on the role of two participatory modelling initiatives implemented in a highly conflictive setting: the Mancha Occidental aquifer, Spain. The methodologies are described within the context of the case study, examining their potential relevance to integrated assessment from a conceptual stan...

All important features, such as usability, quality, or efficiency of a product, are determined early on in the design process by the extent to which design requirements are captured and understood. Traditionally, however, those most effected by design decisions, such as users, have been left out of the design process in general and the requirement gathering in particular. Although restricted ex...

This brief report discusses the usefulness of “ranking and ratings” cards in context participatory research with looked-after children. Within this research, we draw upon notions participation as outlined UNCRC. We undertook to elicit voices looked after children, aged 6 11 years, who were involved a school-based creative mentoring intervention. The researchers created card based popular game “...

OBJECTIVE Cultural and health service obstacles affect the quality of pregnancy care that women from vulnerable populations receive. Using a participatory design approach, the Stress in Pregnancy: Improving Results with Interactive Technology group developed specifications for a suite of eHealth applications to improve the quality of perinatal mental health care. MATERIALS AND METHODS We esta...

Research in paediatric nursing, paediatric psychology, health care management and environment-behaviour studies suggest that there are many obstacles in completing qualitative research in health care settings with children and young people. As a result, the evidence from this kind of research is limited. Both authors have recently completed participatory qualitative studies with children and yo...

The LifeCLEF plant identification challenge aims at evaluating plant identification methods and systems at a very large scale, close to the conditions of a real-world biodiversity monitoring scenario. The 2016-th edition was actually conducted on a set of more than 110K images illustrating 1000 plant species living in West Europe, built through a large-scale participatory sensing platform initi...