Self-monitoring and social comparison are theoretically related, as the former involves searching the environment for information to inform changes in one’s own behavior and the latter involves seeking out social information for the purposes of comparison. We examined the relation between these two constructs, while simultaneously examining how scale choice for self-monitoring can greatly influ...

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When we were given the challenge of expressing our views of research as the researcher‟s story, we intended to talk primarily about the ways in which our personal lives mediated our research work. While this remains one of the aspects of what we want to share, in our negotiations and conversations about writing this column we became aware of what brought us together to write a common article on...

We compare six definitions of the concept of “representative user,” including interpretations based in statistics, grounded theory, political theory and design practice. This participatory poster invites conference participants to contribute their own interpretations.

The aim of this paper is to understand the social use and the consequences of PGIS in local communities, more specifically in Sierra Nevada, Mexico. In order to investigate the use of ICT by communities, we applied a multilevel and structurationist framework that articulates three dimensions: context, process and content. The results of our study draw attention to the implications of using PGIS...

Improving the visitors experience has become a priority in many museums that aim at establishing a stronger relationship with their visitors. Developing engaging museum exhibits could benefit from being inscribed in the participatory culture framework. In this paper we introduce a co-design workshop where cultural heritage professionals and students identified social interaction as a key featur...

Introduction: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation are concepts that have often been treated as combined or closely related functions in many development interventions. IFAD (1999) points out that M&E is ‘the heart of managing for impacts’, defining managing for impact as ‘the need to respond to changing circumstances and increased understanding by adapting the proj...