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 …

Today, most design projects are infrastructuring projects, because they build on
technologies, competencies and practices that already exist. While infrastructuring was …

In this article we outline a temporally extended co-design process of media technologies
developed in collaboration with elderly people. In the course of doing this, we identify a set …

Highlights•People do not only purchase and use products; they design, appropriate and
innovate.•Research on active users in different fields highlight different characteristics.•We …

Abstract Science and Technology Studies understandings of technological change are at
odds with its own dominant research designs and methodological guidelines. A key insight …

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to
innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular …

We address the design issue of mundane and strategic work in collaborative design. We do
so through an examination of a series of participatory design activities in building a flagship …

In this article we use the formative evaluation of a prototype 'assembly'of pervasive
computing technologies to specify design implications for emergency virtual teamwork tools …

Urban vegetation is an essential element of the urban city pedestrian walkway. Despite city
forest regulations and urban planning best practices, vegetation planning lacks clear …

This article provides a methodological perspective on the notion of the aesthetics of
interaction in ambient computing systems. Aesthetics of interaction is challenged by the …