Abstract We characterize Participatory Design (PD) as a maturing area of research and as
an evolving practice among design professionals. Although PD has been applied outside of …

Healthcare systems require a paradigm shift in the way healthcare services are delivered to
counteract demographic changes in patient populations, expanding technological …

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the
design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a …

Ethnography as a resource for design has been a topic of debate within Participatory Design
since the late 1980s when a group of anthropologically trained social scientists began …

The elicitation or communication of user requirements comprises an early and critical but
highly error-prone stage in system development. Socially oriented methodologies provide …

The article presents a conceptual framework and a coherent method for design in an
organizational context within the participatory design tradition. The MUST method has been …

Early participatory design (PD) projects tended to be of limited size and complexity. Over the
last two decades, however, various attempts have been made to apply PD to large-scale …

Social media and user-generated content (UGC) are increasingly important features of
journalistic work in a number of different ways. However, their use presents major …

The paper reviews some aspects of the procurement and development of large scale
systems and finds that there is still a high failure rate, which is especially visible in the public …

With its 10th biannual anniversary conference, Participatory Design (PD) is leaving its teens
and must now be considered ready to join the adult world. In this article we encourage the …