This research paper is dedicated to the examination of participative spatial planning approaches using methods from the field of Geodesign. The increasing development pressure requires analyses of potentially available building sites (Baulandpotential). Using the computer game Minecraft as visualization technique for real-world data, participating persons experience an interactive and playful a...

Business and government organizations are increasingly pressed to deal effectively and efficiently with multiple criteria evaluation in a variety of contexts, among which are education and training. This paper demonstrates that a “fuzzy set” assessment approach implemented with a Group Support System can be successfully applied in university classroom contexts. Student learning was significantl...

Three forms of inductive generalization statistical generalization, variation-based generalization and theory-carried generalization are insufficient concerning case-to-case generalization, which is a form of analogical generalization. The quality of case-to-case generalization needs to be reinforced by setting up explicit analogical argumentation. To evaluate analogical argumentation six crite...

Users and the context of use are the heart of user-centred design. If the users’ tasks are irregular or varying the information gathering is difficult. In our study we used photography based artefact analysis to gather information about these kinds of problematic situations. The combination of artefact analysis and participative observations proved to be a practical and viable solution. In this...

Should poverty tourism be subject, on moral grounds, to specific policy constraints? This article responds to the question by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. It argues that the complexity of the social relationship...

The increasingly popular design technique called ‘personas’ provides a natural way to introduce issues of diversity and power relationships in software development. Persona development is a powerful technique that must be used carefully. It may be the most effective way to introduce participative approaches into mass market software development. This is of broader significance because it is inc...