Participatory It Design

Author : Keld Bodker,Finn Kensing,Jesper Simonsen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262512442

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Participatory IT Design by Keld Bodker,Finn Kensing,Jesper Simonsen Pdf

A state-of-the-art method for introducing new information technology systems into an organization, illustrated by case studies drawn from a ten-year research project. The goal of participatory IT design is to set sensible, general, and workable guidelines for the introduction of new information technology systems into an organization. Reflecting the latest systems-development research, this book encourages a business-oriented and socially sensitive approach that takes into consideration the specific organizational context as well as first-hand knowledge of users' work practices and allows all stakeholders—users, management, and staff—to participate in the process. Participatory IT Design is a guide to the theory and practice of this process that can be used as a reference work by IT professionals and as a textbook for classes in information technology at introductory through advanced levels. Drawing on the work of a ten-year research program in which the authors worked with Danish and American companies, the book offers a framework for carrying out IT design projects as well as case studies that stand as examples of the process. The method presented in Participatory IT Design—known as the MUST method, after a Danish acronym for theories and methods of initial analysis and design activities—was developed and tested in thirteen industrial design projects for companies and organizations that included an American airline, a multinational pharmaceutical company, a national broadcasting corporation, a multinational software house, and American and Danish universities. The first part of the book introduces the concepts and guidelines on which the method is based, while the second and third parts are designed as a practical toolbox for utilizing the MUST method. Part II describes the four phases of a design project—initiation, in-line analysis, in-depth analysis, and innovation. Part III explains the method's sixteen techniques and related representation tools, offering first an overview and then specific descriptions of each in separate sections.

Author : Douglas Schuler,Aki Namioka
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351425773

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Participatory Design by Douglas Schuler,Aki Namioka Pdf

The voices in this collection are primarily those of researchers and developers concerned with bringing knowledge of technological possibilities to bear on informed and effective system design. Their efforts are distinguished from many previous writings on system development by their central and abiding reliance on direct and continuous interaction with those who are the ultimate arbiters of system adequacy; namely, those who will use the technology in their everyday lives and work. A key issue throughout is the question of who does what to whom: whose interests are at stake, who initiates action and for what reason, who defines the problem and who decides that there is one. The papers presented follow in the footsteps of a small but growing international community of scholars and practitioners of participatory systems design. Many of the original European perspectives are represented here as well as some new and distinctively American approaches. The collection is characterized by a rich and diverse set of perspectives and experiences that, despite their differences, share a distinctive spirit and direction -- a more humane, creative, and effective relationship between those involved in technology's design and use, and between technology and the human activities that motivate the technology.

Author : Jesper Simonsen,Toni Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780415694407

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Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design by Jesper Simonsen,Toni Robertson Pdf

Participatory Design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions more responsive to human needs, this is a state-of-the-art reference handbook for the subject. The Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of experts to discuss the pivotal issues in participatory design.

Author : Betsy DiSalvo,Jason Yip,Elizabeth Bonsignore,Carl DiSalvo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317248224

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Participatory Design for Learning by Betsy DiSalvo,Jason Yip,Elizabeth Bonsignore,Carl DiSalvo Pdf

Participatory Design is a field of research and design that actively engages stakeholders in the processes of design in order to better conceptualize and create tools, environments, and systems that serve those stakeholders. In Participatory Design for Learning: Perspectives from Practice and Research, contributors from across the fields of the learning sciences and design articulate an inclusive practice and begin the process of shaping guidelines for such collaborative involvement. Drawing from a wide range of examples and perspectives, this book explores how participatory design can contribute to the development, implementation, and sustainability of learning innovations. Written for scholars and students, Participatory Design for Learning: Perspectives from Practice and Research develops and draws attention to practices that are relevant to the facilitation of effective educational environments and learning technologies.

Author : Oswald Devisch,Liesbeth Huybrechts,Roel De Ridder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351615747

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Participatory Design Theory by Oswald Devisch,Liesbeth Huybrechts,Roel De Ridder Pdf

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of information to being directly involved in decision-making procedures. Increasingly, governments are putting citizen participation at the centre of their policy objectives, striving for more transparency, to engage and empower local individuals and communities to collaborate on public projects and to encourage self-organization. This book explores the role of participatory design in keeping these participatory processes public. It addresses four specific lines of enquiry: how can the use and/or development of technologies and social media help to diversify, to coproduce, to interrupt and to document democratic design experiments? Aimed at researchers and academics in the fields of urban planning and participatory design, this book includes contributions from a range of experts across Europe including the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Spain, France, Romania, Hungary and Finland.

Author : Jerry Alan Fails,Mona Leigh Guha,Allison Druin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 160198720X

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Methods and Techniques for Involving Children in the Design of New Technology for Children by Jerry Alan Fails,Mona Leigh Guha,Allison Druin Pdf

Considers the various roles children have played in the technology design process, with a focus on those that integrally involve children throughout the process. Summarizes and provides a pragmatic foundation for researchers and practitioners to use several methods and techniques for designing technologies with and for children.

Author : Susanne Bødker,Christian Dindler,Ole Sejer Iversen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031022357

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Participatory Design by Susanne Bødker,Christian Dindler,Ole Sejer Iversen Pdf

This book introduces Participatory Design to researchers and students in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). Grounded in four strong commitments, the book discusses why and how Participatory Design is important today. The book aims to provide readers with a practical resource, introducing them to the central practices of Participatory Design research as well as to key references. This is done from the perspective of Scandinavian Participatory Design. The book is meant for students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in Participatory Design for research studies, assignments in HCI classes, or as part of an industry project. It is structured around 11 questions arranged in 3 main parts that provide the knowledge needed to get started with practicing Participatory Design. Each chapter responds to a question about defining, conducting, or the results of carrying out Participatory Design. The authors share their extensive experience of Participatory Design processes and thinking by combining historical accounts, cases, how-to process descriptions, and reading lists to guide further readings so as to grasp the many nuances of Participatory Design as it is practiced across sectors, countries, and industries.

Author : David de la Pena,Diane Jones Allen,Randolph T. Hester,Laura J. Lawson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918473

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Design as Democracy by David de la Pena,Diane Jones Allen,Randolph T. Hester,Laura J. Lawson Pdf

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.

Author : Carl Disalvo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262528221

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Adversarial Design by Carl Disalvo Pdf

An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products. In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms “adversarial design,” that uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs, values, and what is taken to be fact. It is not simply applying design to politics—attempting to improve governance for example, by redesigning ballots and polling places; it is implicitly contestational and strives to question conventional approaches to political issues. DiSalvo explores the political qualities and potentials of design by examining a series of projects that span design and art, engineering and computer science, agitprop and consumer products. He views these projects—which include computational visualizations of networks of power and influence, therapy robots that shape sociability, and everyday objects embedded with microchips that enable users to circumvent surveillance—through the lens of agonism, a political theory that emphasizes contention as foundational to democracy. DiSalvo's illuminating analysis aims to provide design criticism with a new approach for thinking about the relationship between forms of political expression, computation as a medium, and the processes and products of design.

Author : Thomas Binder,Giorgio De Michelis,Pelle Ehn,Giulio Jacucci,Per Linde
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262297325

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Design Things by Thomas Binder,Giorgio De Michelis,Pelle Ehn,Giulio Jacucci,Per Linde Pdf

A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things. Design Things offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice, envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic and democratic practices and values. The authors of Design Things look at design practice as a mode of inquiry that involves people, space, artifacts, materials, and aesthetic experience, following the process of transformation from a design concept to a thing. Design Things, which grew out of the Atelier (Architecture and Technology for Inspirational Living) research project, goes beyond the making of a single object to view design projects as sociomaterial assemblies of humans and artifacts—“design things.” The book offers both theoretical and practical perspectives, providing empirical support for the authors' conceptual framework with field projects, case studies, and examples from professional practice. The authors examine the dynamics of the design process; the multiple transformations of the object of design; metamorphing, performing, and taking place as design strategies; the concept of the design space as “emerging landscapes”; the relation between design and use; and the design of controversial things.

Author : Jorge Frascara
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203301302

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Design and the Social Sciences by Jorge Frascara Pdf

The social sciences have a distinctive contribution to make to the understanding and handling of design issues, both in product and systems design and in the design of the built environment. The role of cognitive psychology, particularly ergonomics, to the design process has traditionally been well appreciated. Because it provides important insight

Author : Keld Bodker,Finn Kensing,Jesper Simonsen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262261790

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Participatory IT Design by Keld Bodker,Finn Kensing,Jesper Simonsen Pdf

A state-of-the-art method for introducing new information technology systems into an organization, illustrated by case studies drawn from a ten-year research project. The goal of participatory IT design is to set sensible, general, and workable guidelines for the introduction of new information technology systems into an organization. Reflecting the latest systems-development research, this book encourages a business-oriented and socially sensitive approach that takes into consideration the specific organizational context as well as first-hand knowledge of users' work practices and allows all stakeholders—users, management, and staff—to participate in the process. Participatory IT Design is a guide to the theory and practice of this process that can be used as a reference work by IT professionals and as a textbook for classes in information technology at introductory through advanced levels. Drawing on the work of a ten-year research program in which the authors worked with Danish and American companies, the book offers a framework for carrying out IT design projects as well as case studies that stand as examples of the process. The method presented in Participatory IT Design—known as the MUST method, after a Danish acronym for theories and methods of initial analysis and design activities—was developed and tested in thirteen industrial design projects for companies and organizations that included an American airline, a multinational pharmaceutical company, a national broadcasting corporation, a multinational software house, and American and Danish universities. The first part of the book introduces the concepts and guidelines on which the method is based, while the second and third parts are designed as a practical toolbox for utilizing the MUST method. Part II describes the four phases of a design project—initiation, in-line analysis, in-depth analysis, and innovation. Part III explains the method's sixteen techniques and related representation tools, offering first an overview and then specific descriptions of each in separate sections.

Author : Henry Sanoff
Publisher : Henry Sanoff
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architects and community
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086759382

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Participatory Design by Henry Sanoff Pdf

Author : Michelle Bastian,Owain Jones,Niamh Moore,Emma Roe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317340874

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Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds by Michelle Bastian,Owain Jones,Niamh Moore,Emma Roe Pdf

Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ‘ecologicalisation’ of knowledge. This book adopts a much needed ‘more-than-human’ framework to grasp these complexities and challenges. It contains multidisciplinary insights and diverse methodological approaches to question how to revise, reshape and invent methods in order to work with non-humans in participatory ways. The book offers a framework for thinking critically about the promises and potentialities of participation from within a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its future development. It will be of interest to those working in the environmental humanities, animal studies, science and technology studies, ecology, and anthropology.

Author : Sasha Costanza-Chock
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262043458

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Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock Pdf

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people—specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)—and invites readers to “build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability.” Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.