We see that the collaborative and participatory nature of software development continues to evolve, shape and be shaped by communication channels that are used by developer communities of practice--both by traditional communication channels (e.g., telephone, in-person interactions), as well as social features that may be standalone or integrated with other development tools (e.g., email, chat, ...

Participatory approaches for the design and the introduction of computer systems are drawing increasingly more attention among researchers as well as among practitioners. While participatory design (Schuler and Namioka 1993) might be considered as only "helpful" for the development of single-userapplications it can offer significant benefits for the design of systems in collaborative contexts, ...

There are numerous approaches and techniques for establishing a virtual environment for participatory design. The most common approach is to extend the personal computer desktop environment to include tools for meeting and sharing files and making those files available to all those involved in the design development. This approach takes the individual work environment and adds tools for communi...

This paper reports preliminary findings from the Finding a Voice project, an ethnographic investigation into the development and consequences of participatory content creation programs in underserved communities in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The project explores how information and communication technology can be used to enable both civic and cultural participation, and creative eng...

In this work we study the problem of querier privacy in the Participatory Sensing domain. While prior work has attempted to protect the privacy of people contributing sensing data from their mobile phones, little or no work has focused on the problem of querier privacy. Motivated by a novel communication model in which clients may directly query participatory sensing networks operated by potent...

Participatory Sensing combines the ubiquity of mobile phones with the sensing capabilities of Wireless Sensor Networks. It targets the pervasive collection of information, e.g., temperature, traffic conditions, or medical data. Users produce measurements from their mobile devices, thus, a number of privacy concerns – due to the personal information conveyed by reports – may hinder the large-sca...

This paper gives an overview of the theory of participatory ergonomics interventions and summary examples from a range of industries, including health care, military, manufacturing, production and processing, services, construction and transport. The definition of participatory approaches includes interventions at macro (organizational, systems) levels as well as micro (individual), where worke...