An obvious task in open innovation is to find suitable partners for collaboration. In this paper we present results from three participatory case studies of identifying and matching technology firms for collaborative innovation projects. We observe that matchmaking is a more complex process than an (online) market transaction. The cases show how innovation intermediaries organize the matching p...

This paper discusses how we in the participatory design (PD) research community may contribute to the evolution of ICT design1 practices into something that is much more attuned to people using ICT and to their interests. The main idea is that to do so we need to focus more on issues in the gap between politics and techniques, e.g., project funding, types of users and of use settings, the role ...

Three examples of collaborative research methods, Action Research (AR), Design Science (DS), and Participatory Design (PD), have been applied successfully in Information Systems (IS) research. This paper investigates whether research projects which are prominently published under one method also meet the characteristics of the respective 'other two' methods and could thus also be published unde...

The current trend in foreign aid is toward small-scale sustainable development projects in partnership with defined communities. However, these projects are subject to the influences of self-interested human behavior, poorly defined community structures and resources and organizational constraints that can prevent full realization of development models. Under these constraints, attempting parti...

It is said that due to the peculiar dynamics of FLOSS communities, effective participation in their projects is a privileged way to acquire the relevant skills and expertise in software development. Such is probably the reason for a number of higher education institutions to include in their Software Engineering curricula some form of contact with the FLOSS reality. This paper explores such a p...

Introduction: practising sport contributes tothe reinforcement of important psychological features such as self-perception of competence, especially when participants are children from socially vulnerable contexts. Objective: to compare the socially vulnerablechildren’s self-perception of competence, assisted and unassisted by social sports projects. Methods: a total of 235 children (male and f...

1541-1672/09/$26.00 © 2009 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Published by the IEEE Computer Society but they are still far from satisfying their constituents, as they usually operate ineffi ciently and ineffectively. E-government and e-participation research aims to refocus government on its customers—citizens and businesses—and provide the models, technologies, and tools for more effective and eff...

It is argued that such broad-based innovation policies require new types of systemic frameworks and tools in order to support innovation activities broadly and efficiently. The innovation generating model (Figure 1) has been created for this purpose, and it has been used to date on several occasions in Finland. It has been applied as a systemic framework for Finnish Workplace Development Progra...

This paper draws on a qualitative study that was undertaken as part of a national research study to assess the impact of participatory arts provision for people with mental health needs. It explores how arts and mental health projects may facilitate some of the key elements of what has been termed a 'recovery approach' in mental health. It is argued that it is precisely these elements--the fost...

Many methods have been developed for engaging users in systems design. Our research found that traditional methods for user involvement do not apply to the development of large-scale e-Government systems. Nonetheless, involving the users in the design process of technological innovations is paramount for the success of these systems in terms of acceptance, trust and use. The aim of this paper i...