This chapter seeks to contribute to the ongoing debates in the domain of Participatory Design by discussing the various trends and questions within the context of the Health Information Systems Programme (HISP) initiative ongoing over nearly two decades. The focus in this chapter is to discuss issues of Participatory Design during the course of the design, developme t, implementation and scalin...

This article examines the evolution of participatory thinking in transpersonal studies and related disciplines since the publication of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory (Ferrer, 2002). Following an introduction to participatory spirituality, the paper discusses three ways this approach has been understood in the transpersonal literature: as disciplinary model, theoretical orientation, and parad...

As technological capabilities for capturing, aggregating, and processing large quantities of data continue to improve, the question becomes how to effectively utilise these resources. Whenever automatic methods fail, it is necessary to rely on human background knowledge, intuition, and deliberation. This creates demand for data exploration interfaces that support the analytical process, allowin...

This study presents the results from evaluation of a hydrologic modeling workshop for 46 water resource decision makers in Hermosillo, Mexico. This region has serious, ongoing water quantity and quality problems. Our goals were to assess participants’ perceptions of our workshop and associated hydrologic and water quality models and to learn whether it changed their perceptions of local water r...

a purpose of zagros forests preservation plan is to reduce degradation factors through empowering woodman beneficiaries and underdevelopment of rural forested areas which appear as scattered agronomies inside and in forest margins, trees cutting for power supply, trees cutting for hay supply or making coal in forested regions. therefore, natural resources experts believe that, by creation or im...

in order to investigate the effects of  management models on the diversity of wooden species, forests of third series of shiler, the first division mehrbanrud watershed and third and fourth series of eight division of behshahr – neka townships were studied with participatory and governmental management respectively. the diversity of the wooden species have been evaluated by diversity parametric...