We investigate the diversity of participatory design research practice, based on a review of
ten years of participatory design research published as full research papers at the …

PD questions major assumptions about technologies in workplaces, communities, homes,
and social institutions. It is not coincidental that PD offers these challenges at a time when …

Questions of human values often arise in HCI research and practice. Such questions can be
difficult to address well, and a principled approach can clarify issues of both theory and …

Europe (and the rest of the western world) faces many challenges in the future: integration of
the new member states, continued competition in important business sectors, solving the …

This paper presents MyExperience, a system for capturing both objective and subjective in
situ data on mobile computing activities. MyExperience combines the following two …

Living Labs are an emerging Public Private Partnership (PPP) concept in which firms, public
authorities and citizens work together to create, prototype, validate and test new services …

This dissertation studies user acceptance of mobile services based on a series of case
studies of mobile Internet and location-aware information services targeted at consumers …

While the user-centered design methods we bring from human-computer interaction to
ubicomp help sketch ideas and refine prototypes, few tools or techniques help explore …

This chapter discusses methods that go beyond merely adding users—methods to create
new settings and experiences that can assist computer professionals to work in partnership …

This paper is about new forms of participation that are enabled as a result of social
technologies. The premise is that social technologies simultaneously create and demand an …