The rapid decline in biodiversity associated with environmental degradation has encouraged governments worldwide to take urgent action aimed at monitoring and documenting its current state. In response, governmental and non-governmental institutions have supported the rise of technologymediated public participatory systems, also known as citizen science initiatives, designed to encourage citize...

The aim of the article is to present and discuss the potentials of community informatics for participatory planning and design, as well as for ICT-mediated participation in general. The article is based on a case study of the co-design of a shared yard in Helsinki. The application of ICTs meant that tools such as the local website and the Urban Mediator were used as platforms and media to co-cr...

An emerging software development paradigm – the toolbelt model – offers new challenges and opportunities to the participatory design movement. A case study illustrates how professionals working in product design and development domains assemble and evolve collections, or “toolbelts,” of off-the-shelf software tools to support their ongoing work practices. An analysis shows that while the toolbe...

INTRODUCTION This article describes a conceptual participatory design framework for urban planning that integrates various forms of available knowledge and provides enhanced support for stakeholder participation within urban planning. This framework has been initially implemented and tested as a participatory planning workshop in Porto Alegre, Brazil, called World Cup 2014 'Urban Scenarios' , w...

pervasive mobile computing, consumer experience, participatory design The belief motivating the 4D Experience research programme is that the experience evoked by a computer system can be (at least) as important as the ostensible functionality of the system. In this report, we describe three case studies that explore the experiential approach to system development: Zap Scan, A Walk in the Wired ...

Participatory design (PD) has shown its utility in the field of health care in terms of both efficiency of production and acceptance by care givers and patients. The authors consider the particular case of video game design for health. This field involves the inclusion of extra roles such as game designers to create a more complex design which takes into account not only the health aspects but ...

Involving all stakeholders in the design process is often seen as a necessity from both a pragmatic and a moral point of view [1]. This is always a challenging task for designers and stakeholders and therefore many participatory design methods have been developed to facilitate such a design process. The traditional participatory design methods, however, are not fully appropriate to incorporate ...

This paper presents a project that explores the possibilities for the use of computer game technologies in the participatory design process. Interactive 3D environments designed with the Virtools development environment were used in a Home Zone consultation process, which allowed participants to navigate, explore and contribute to proposed developments to their residential environment. These te...

It is known that the adoption of user-centred design processes can lead to more universally accessible products and services. However, the most frequently cited approach to user-centred design, i.e. participatory design, can be both problematic and expensive to implement., particularly over the difficulty of finding and recruiting suitable participants. Simulation aids offer a potentially cost-...

OBJECTIVE Cultural and health service obstacles affect the quality of pregnancy care that women from vulnerable populations receive. Using a participatory design approach, the Stress in Pregnancy: Improving Results with Interactive Technology group developed specifications for a suite of eHealth applications to improve the quality of perinatal mental health care. MATERIALS AND METHODS We esta...