Participation in design research

“Participation” in Participatory Design Research

This thesis is about defining participation in the context of fostering research cohesion in the field of Participatory Design. The systematic and incremental building of new knowledge is the process by which science and research is advanced. This process requires a certain type of cohesion in the way research is undertaken for new knowledge to be built from the knowledge provided by previous p...

Studying the problems of student participation in research activities

The present study investigates the problems of student participation in research activities in Farhangiyan University. The research method was descriptive – survey. The research instrument, interviews and a questionnaire were designed. In the interview, purposeful sampling; theoretical saturation and for gathering data from questionnaire, simple random method was used. Construct and content val...

Participation in design things

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...

User participation in CLIR research

It would appear that little effort is being made to identify who are the users of CLIR systems and to fully understand how actual users can make use of such systems. An extensive user study to explore the potential use of a CLIR system identified a gap between current assumptions made about CLIR systems use and the results of the investigation confirming that to date, real users and real uses h...

Minority recruitment and participation in health research.