Social navigation in a community of practice (CoP) is an approach of locating information through increased social awareness. Designing support for social navigation requires precise knowledge about the users’ needs and wishes so as to meet user participatory design methodology. User requirement definition on social navigation is, however, difficult to elicit. On the one hand, without the conte...

Understanding links between catchment management and community health demands consideration of complex bio-physical, socio-economic, and public health relationships. These relationships cut across a spectrum of health, environment and development considerations and highlight the need for appropriate and integrative modes of inquiry and decision making. What can Participatory Action Research (PA...

Participatory ergonomics is an intervention strategy acting on physical load exposures occurring in occupational settings, scarcely known in Spain but with a number of experiences and evidences coming from other countries. There are several reasons justifying the interest of this approach. First, participatory ergonomics focuses on one of the categories of occupational exposures with the larges...

1. Introduction In this position paper we explore some of the issues surrounding the evaluation of public situated displays. We discuss how and more importantly what we hope to achieve through our evaluation of such systems. Sometimes we may wish to evaluate against some kind of performance metric, however, often the evaluation goal is less tractable, e.g. how a public display system may suppor...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Participatory research in environmental health is still rare France. The objectives of research, general, can be very diverse (e.g.: identifying situations associated with risks estimating exposures and effects, testing the effectiveness preventive actions) related methods are as well. Opportunities for greater implication civil society challenges differ at each step activit...

Participatory epidemiology (PE) is an evolving branch of veterinary epidemiology which uses a combination of practitioner communication skills and participatory methods to improve the involvement of animal keepers in the analysis of animal disease problems, and the design, implementation and evaluation of disease control programmes and policies. This review describes the origins of PE and how t...

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1 Introduction Activities in and with groups are a central element of participatory research processes, particularly in the most popular approach, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). Ideally a research team comprises people from various disciplines, of both sexes and of different cultural origins to avoid observer bias and to include diverse perspectives. As regards the methods used in PRAs, g...