As part of a project aiming to demonstrate feasibility and meaningfulness of on-line and blended PBL (Problem, Process & Project Based) design educational processes (Interaction Design, Design or the Experience, etc.), in this paper we present and discuss a participatory-grading procedure that has been designed to assess the intermediate tests of a course on "Multimodal Interface and Systems". ...

In this paper I frame my past design research with the philosophical approaches of participatory design as outlined by Pelle Ehn in Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts. The paper provides a series of related design techniques as exploration of interaction design methods and concludes by raising questions of methodologies research and evaluation. Author

This paper discusses the design of things. This is done in an attempt to conceptually explore some of the political and practical challenges to participatory design today. Which things, and which participants? The perspective is strategic and conceptual. Two approaches are in focus, participatory design (designing for use before use) and meta-design (designing for design after design). With thi...

Teacher ownership is crucial for the sustainability of science education reform efforts. This paper discusses participatory design as a bottom-up approach for promoting teachers’ sense of ownership of inquiry-based learning and teaching approach as put forward by the PROFILES project. According to the prevalent argument in favor of participatory design, this approach leads to designs that are e...

This position paper portrays my approach towards learning tools based on embodied interaction for underprivileged children in Chennai, India. It outlines my ongoing Master Thesis in New Media Art and Design. Participatory design research revealed challenges of a community. This paper argues how these challenges can be turned into opportunities with the help of participatory design.

construction industry consists of several phases in which a variety of stakeholders are involved. as construction projects are becoming larger, more complex and more diverse, the design phase has been more important factor for the success of projects than ever before. however, it is considered that most of design work occurred in actual design process is intangible. such recognition makes the d...

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 paper presents experiences from a user-driven innovation process of an outpatient department in a hospital. The mixing of methods from user-driven innovation and participatory design contributed to develop an innovative concept of the spatial and organizational design of an outpatient department in a hospital. Design games and tabletop simulation seem to be powerful tools in facilitating s...

This paper presents observations from a project that combines participatory rural development methods with participatory design techniques to support a farmers’ co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, India.

BACKGROUND The use of telemedicine technologies in health care has increased substantially, together with a growing interest in participatory design methods when developing telemedicine approaches. OBJECTIVE We present lessons learned from a case study involving patients with heart disease and health care professionals in the development of a personalized Web-based health care intervention. ...