Specific, situated participatory design (PD) practices have always been at the heart of Participatory Design research. The role of the very situat edness and specificity of PD practice for theory-building within PD research is, however, seldom discussed explicitly. In this article, we explore why and in which ways the specificity and situatedness of PD practices are crucial for PD research. We ...

When conducting ethics research with children in health care settings, studying children's experiences is essential, but so is the context in which these experiences happen and their meaning. Using Charles Taylor's hermeneutic philosophy, we developed a methodological framework for health ethics research with children that bridges key aspects of ethnography, participatory research, and hermeneu...

Over the past seven years, we have been conducting a variety of participatory design activities with research biologists, programmers, and bioinformaticians at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. We first describe the history of these activities and how they have created the beginnings of a participatory design culture. We introduce participatory programming, which integrates participatory design an...

SO(p, q) = {g ∈ SLp+q(R) : g>Qg = Q} (where Q = ( 1p 0 0 −1q ) )  SU(2) −→ SO(3) SL2(R) −→ SO(2, 1) SU(2)× SU(2) −→ SO(4) SL2(C) −→ SO(3, 1) SL2(R)× SL2(R) −→ SO(2, 2) Sp∗(2, 0) −→ SO(5) Sp∗(1, 1) −→ SO(4, 1) Sp2(R) −→ SO(3, 2) SU(4) −→ SO(6) SL2(H) −→ SO(5, 1) SU(2, 2) −→ SO(4, 2) SL4(R) −→ SO(3, 3) Thus, these are small examples...

This study examines technical efficiency between Participatory & NonParticipatory farmers under Integrated Crop Management project (ICM) in the north-west region of Bangladesh. Sixty farmers of which 30 participatory & 30 nonparticipatory were selected following stratified random sampling technique from four villages under pirganj upazila in Thakurgaon district. ICM project participatory farmer...

We see that the collaborative and participatory nature of software development continues to evolve, shape and be shaped by communication channels that are used by developer communities of practice--both by traditional communication channels (e.g., telephone, in-person interactions), as well as social features that may be standalone or integrated with other development tools (e.g., email, chat, ...

Social plugins for sharing news through Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly salient features on news sites. Together with the user comment feature, social plugins are the most common way for users to contribute. The wide use of multiple features has opened new areas to comprehensively study users’ participatory practices. However, how do these opportunities to participate vary between...

User participation has been recognized as a way of gaining more knowledge about work and improving the quality of the computer application to be designed. Often the problems of user participation have been discussed from the point of view of researchers getting access to the users. Yet user participation should also be seen from the point of view of the conditions of the participation process-t...

The Making Design and Analysing Interaction track at the Participatory Innovation Conference calls for submissions from ‘Makers’ who will contribute examples of participatory innovation activities documented in video and ‘Analysts’ who will analyse those examples of participatory innovation activity. The aim of this paper is to open up for a discussion within the format of the track of the role...

Conventional non-digital physical stop-frame animation is based on the inherently intuitive direct two handed manipulation of a passive figure. Digital media may provide powerful software tools for animation but they do so through less intuitive interfaces. We argue that we can unite these two areas in a new system which utilises the full potential of the stop-frame animators’ tacit skills. We ...