Design teams of social robots are often multidisciplinary, due to the broad knowledge from different scientific domains needed develop such complex technology. However, tools facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration scarce. We introduce a framework for participatory design and corresponding canvas tool design. The canvases can be applied in parts process between experts fields, as well incorp...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate first-year undergraduate engineering students’ awareness and conceptual understanding of environmental issues and to examine how effective a participatory game design strategy was to elicit their understanding. Respondents (n=1,394) completed baseline environmental awareness surveys and 24 respondents participated in the game design process consistin...

This paper suggests that participatory system design methodologies may be used as a learning tool in academic environments. It reports from a successful experiment in this direction, and discusses how participatory design characteristics and techniques are particularly well suited for interdisciplinary learning experiences.

Participatory design (PD) has taken as its ideal that designers and users should engage in an equal language game. When we apply PD in contexts where some of the users involved are weak, ill, or have impairments, this assumed equality can no longer be an ideal. The workshop explores new ideals for participatory design in non-work settings with highly heterogeneous user constellations.

This paper contains a study on how Participatory Design (PD) and distributed software development (DSD) are linked up and whether Distributed Participatory Design is an inherent paradoxon. For this purpose, potential areas of conflict for DSD are identified and two literature surveys of PD and DSD literature have been done.

This paper proposes a new way of looking into the „sociality‟ of social (network) games. On the basis of looking closely at the development of Frontierville, a popular Facebook game, and more abstractly at the development of its fellow Zynga Facebook-based games (such as Farmville or Cityville), we argue that various network-based forms of participatory design are increasingly becoming both inf...

The Participatory design movement in the United States is, in many ways, growing out of the Scandinavian or worker-oriented design approach in Europe. This article discusses some of the roots of this movement and goes on to focus on ways that a ‘home grown’, or typically American brand of pragmatic system design can develop in the US. The road toward participatory design in the United States ha...