Guide of PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
UNITN - Participatory Design Conference 2006
"Expanding Boundaries in Design" - 2006 Participatory Design Conference. Trento,
Italy, 1-5 August 2006.
Home Participatory Design Conference 2006 2006 Participatory Design Conference Expanding Boundaries in Design Trento, Italy, August 1-5, 2006 Sponsored by The theme Expanding Boundaries in Design focuses attention on the multiple contexts in which design takes place and on an expanding range of possible design outcomes
While participatory design principles and practices are most often applied to the design of technical systems and artefacts, increasingly there is both the need and the opportunity to focus PD approaches on other domains, such as physical environments, organizational practices, and IT-enabled services
Likewise, the contexts in which PD is practiced has grown to include teams of globally distributed designers and practitioners; actor networks that span organizational, expertise, cultural and linguistic difference; and activity areas beyond the workplace, such as domestic and leisure
Finally, PD has a significant role to play at various stages of design, from initial concept development, to system configuration, to implementation, to integration within the context of use, and ultimately to ongoing design in use
MWJ Spaul. Participatory design, communicative reason and ...
Anglia Polytechnic University, UK. bstract of a paper presented in the ETHICOMP
International Conference on the Ethical Issues of Using Information Technology, ...
Call for Papers Programme Registration Participatory design, communicative reason and discourse ethics Published in: - Vol 1 Issue 1 Abstract The participatory design of information systems, like all participatory methods, is associated with strong ethical claims; ethical claims which derive their appeal from western democratic institutions
This paper is concerned with the examination of one sustained theoretical attempt to articulate the ethical and political basis of participatory design, that of the social action theory of Jurgen Habermas (1984, 1987a, 1990)
Habermas' theory of communicative action and its associated ethical stance, discourse ethics, provides a comprehensive and relevant framework within which to discuss the participatory design of information systems
Habermas, and the critical tradition of Western Marxism of which he is a representative, has exerted an influence at key points in the participatory design tradition: in the political foundations of the Scandinavian workplace democracy movement )Ehn 1988), in the epistemological underpinnings of computer supported cooperative work (Winograd and Flores 1986), and in the development of design frameworks for office automation (Hirschheim 1985, Lyytinen, Klein and Hirschheim 1991)
Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
A review of Christopher Alexander's major texts, interspersed with remarks about
the architect's methodological and pragmatic concerns and software design.
Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers SUNY Oswego / NY CASE Center Last Content Change: 11 December 1993 (Reformatted 2 January 1997) Contents Introduction Software developers lament ``If only software engineering could be more like X ...'' , where X is any design-intensive profession with a longer and apparently more successful history than software
In part because it is considered as much artistry as engineering, writings about architecture have most extensively explored and argued out the basic underpinnings of design
Even within this context, the ideas of the architect Christopher Alexander stand out as penetrating, and bear compelling implications for software design
Alexander is increasingly well-known in object-oriented (OO) design circles for his influential work on ``patterns''
This paper considers patterns within a broader review of Alexander's prolific writings on design
The format is mainly topical, roughly in historical order, interspersed and concluded with remarks about connections to software design
Alexander's central premise, driving over thirty years of thoughts, actions, and writings, is that there is something fundamentally wrong with twentieth century architectural design methods and practices
Mikhail M. Bakhtin and Interactive Media
A bibliography of materials on this subject, compiled by Luiz Ernesto Merkle.
Firth (2001) June 26, 2001 INFORMATION SYSTEMS Working Paper 2-01 , Marist College, USA Diane Greco (1996) Hypertext with consequences: Recovering a Politics of Hypertext Hypertext'96, Washington DC, USA pp 85-92 (1997) Postmodern Menippeas: The Literature of Ideas in the Age of Information , Mikhail Bakhtin: Culture and Dialogue, June, 20-25, 1997, Calgary, Canada Judith Gregory (2000) Activity Theory in a Trading Zone for Design Research and Practice Proceedings of Doctoral Education in Design: Foundations for the Future International Conference, La Clusaz France 9-12 Jul in Constructive Reading: Teaching Beyond Communication, ed
225-271 Irene Machado (1999) XXII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação Rio de Janeiro - RJ / 1999 John McCarthy (2000) The Paradox of Understanding Work for Design Int
Muller (1997) Ethnocritical Heuristics for reflecting on Work with Users and Other Interested Parties Manuscript 1997 John Palattella (1996) Afterimage, 23(1), pp13+ Arne Raeithel (1992) Activity Theory as a Foundation for Design in Software Development and Reality Construction , Chistine Floyd, Heinz Zllighoven, Reinhard Budde, and Reinhard Keil-Slawick, editors, Spinger Verlag Linda M
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IDC2006 - 5th International Conference for Interaction Design and ...
5th International Conference for Interaction Design and Children. Tampere, Finland.
7-9 June 2006.
As this trend continues, it is increasingly important to understand both the needs of children and the nature of technological design for young people
With this in mind, the IDC conference focuses on addressing the challenges of interaction design for children
To address emerging research and development, IDC 2006 will look for papers, demonstrations, posters that may include at least one of the following broad areas: Emerging technologies for children (e.g., innovative educational simulations, online games, accessible fabrication devices, mobile communications devices, wireless embedded technologies, sensors and actuators, "smart" materials, authoring/programming tools) The impact these technologies can have on children's lives (e.g., in schools, at home, in public spaces) New research methods which give children a voice in the design, development, and evaluation processes (e.g., participatory design methods, usability testing, etc.) This conference builds on the successes and high standards of the previous IDC conferences (IDC 2005 in Boulder, USA, IDC 2004 in Maryland, USA, IDC 2003 in Preston, UK and IDC 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands )
Instructional Design Models
Comprehensive set of links to major models for instruction.
iaslash
News forum for information architects.
» By at 07/12/2006 - 17:52 · » Filed under » | or to post comments As designers look towards user research for the objective truth, Christopher questions the motives behind the research
His latest article explains that and convince stakeholders to make good design decisions
Getty collaborated with 5 designers to create some very creative interactive experiences
Many artifacts are much simpler to create and digest than content inventories - prototypes, comics, sketches, participatory design, games, etc
Numerous UX professionals are now doing so with much success, and the idea was promoted about 50 years ago - see Henry Dreyfussâ 1956 classic 'Designing For People.' Any artifacts related to design research will provide evidence and help quell (fairly common) debates about decisions that donât need to be made
I've been thinking about design games from a business stakeholder perspective for the past year or so, and it's interesting to see Rashmi's take on
1.0, there's a lot to think about how IA responds to new mindsets and technologies.) » By at 11/16/2005 - 19:24 · » Filed under » | or to post comments This is an event I wish I could make - is a day long workshop detailing MAYA Design's work with the Carnegie Library to transform the physical and information spaces
Communication and Design with the Internet
Jonathan Cohen explains the concepts and describes the vision and skills architects
and designers need to implement an Internet strategy.
For the first time, design professionals have a powerful, low-cost, interactive, communication channel with which to convey the visual and spatial information that is their stock-in-trade
This book explains the concepts&—ways that design and building professionals are using the new technologies improve their practice&—and gives readers the vision and skills needed to implement an Internet strategy in their own firms
If you're engaged in design or merely want a lucid introduction to many of the technologies Communication & Design belongs on your shelves." &—Caslon Analytics, Australian internet research consultancy
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The ELITE approach to designing IT for the elderly
[060509] Stort intresse för design med användare En paneldebatt med titeln Designing with users: Promises and Challenges anordnades lördagen den 6 maj av Institutionen för Informatik och Entertainment Services
Kurser och program Forskning Informatik handlar om att förbättra informationssystemdesign och användningen av interaktiva IT-artefakter för arbete och fritid, för individer, organisationer och samhälle
analys-, design- och projektarbete
Forside - NordiCHI
"Changing roles" - 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Oslo,
Norway. 14-18th October 2006.
NordiCHI is the meeting place for researchers from academia and industry, designers, practitioners, educators and others from a broad range of traditions and communities
Traditionally, Nordic perspectives on HCI emphasise topics such as: technology in use, integration of design and use, user participation in design, exploratory design activities, and inter-disciplinary approaches to HCI
Architecture, pedagogy, political action, fine arts, industrial design, dada; the potential list is endless and ought to be growing when information technology is diversified and pervades still wider parts of our lives
Do we need to change our roles as developers, researchers and designers? How can we maintain focus on the user in this ever changing environment? Will the role of HCI change? Conference topics include but are not limited to: Adaptive and adaptable systems Ambient intelligence Artistic and aesthetic approaches to interface design Design cases Design methods End-user development Evaluation methods Group and organisation interfaces Information visualization Innovative interface design Interface agents Interfaces supporting learning Models of interaction Multimodal interfaces New interaction techniques and devices Participatory design Studies of organisations, technology and work Theory and foundation of HCI Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction Universal access and international interfaces Usability studies User-centered design
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Sponsors educational activities, offers a variety of subjects to choose from.
THE DESIGN LEGACY OF JOSEF + ANNI ALBERS Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will speak about the Albers’ time at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale.$7 / $5 for BMCM+AC Members + Students w/ID Co-sponsored by Thinking Ahead: Progressive Design + Black Mountain College Exhibit: Thinking Ahead: Progressive Design + Black Mountain College August 25 - December 30, 2006Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Opening Reception: Friday, August 25, 6:00-8:00 p.m.$3, Free for BMCM+AC members Hazel Larsen Archer, Josef Albers teaching at Black Mountain College The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) proudly presents the exhibition THINKING AHEAD: Progressive Design + Black Mountain College, which will run from August 25 through December 30, 2006
The exhibition, curated by Bobby and Kelly Gold and BMCM+AC, will be accompanied by three related public lecture presentations and a participatory design workshop for children and adults
Fifty years ago, Black Mountain College was closing its doors after some of the most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, poets, dancers and craftspeople of the 20th century had passed through them
The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education
Research article on the digital divide and infrastructure design in Los Angeles
Unified School District (LAUSD).
The analog divide is rendered visible by focusing on practices within the material, discursive, and symbolic contexts of public education. The material environment is comprised of technological artifacts (like computers, books, and desks), spaces (such as classrooms), and infrastructures (such as school facilities and computer networks). Discursive contexts include individual relations, organizational communications, and policy negotiations. Symbolic contexts encompass cultural meanings and logics which are associated with artifacts, images, discourses, and processes. Each of these contexts overlap and interrelate. One can study the interrelation of these contexts through technology practices which occur across them: technology design, use, and evaluation
This paper will focus on technology design in LAUSD in order to gain a deeper understanding of how design processes shape educational possibilities. I attend to technology design because this is a neglected area in studies of education and technology. By contrast, excellent research continues to be done on the instructional side of technologies in education (Bromley & Apple 1998; Healy 1999)
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Participatory Avenues, the Gateway to Community Mapping, P3DM and ...
Promotes the diffusion of Participatory 3D Modeling (P3DM) as best practice in
providing communities added stake in tailoring and owning integrated conservation ...
The Art of Computer Game Design
The entire book "The Art of Computer Game Design" by games industry veteran Chris
Crawford published in HTML.
The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford Preface to the Electronic Version: This text was originally composed by computer game designer Chris Crawford in 1982
Sue Peabody learned of The Art of Computer Game Design , which was then long out of print
Crawford's permission to publish an electronic version of the text on the World Wide Web so that it would be available to her students and to others interested in game design
If you are interested in more recent writings by Chris Crawford, see the interview at the end of The Art of Computer Game Design ; the Virtools Swap-meet interview with Chris Crawford; and Chris Crawford's webpage,
Table of Contents - What is a Game? - Why Do People Play Games? - A Taxonomy of Computer Games - The Computer as a Game Technology - The Game Design Sequence - Design Techniques and Ideals - The Future of Computer Games - Development of Excalibur - Interview with Chris The Education of a Game Designer , November 2003 | Copyright © 1997 Washington State University
PREFACE The central premise of this book is that computer games constitute a new and as yet poorly developed art form that holds great promise for both designers and players
Effective use
Paper by Michael Gurstein examines the concepts and strategies underlying the
notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing ...
Additionally, the kind of ICT developments which would enable an effective participation by local communities in regional, national and even global decision making processes (e-governance) are largely ignored in favour of the design and implementation of efficient and ever more centrally controlled if electronically enhanced service delivery (e-government)
CHI 97: Building Task-Specific Interfaces to High Volume ...
A scholarly paper by Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill, Brian Amento, David
McDonald, and Josh Creter.
Therefore, we redesigned the Phoaks architecture as a generic engine for mining, processing and presenting conversational data that can be configured for specific tasks
We also evolved a set of tools to aid designers in creating, analyzing, and iterating the system and interface design
In the remainder of the paper, we first articulate the principles of the Phoaks approach and discuss how they relate to other research efforts; we then describe the Phoaks URL recommendation interface, illustrating our principles for collaborative filtering interfaces; next we describe the system architecture, motivating its design features in terms of our experience and principles; finally, we discuss general lessons we have learned about interfaces to conversational data from Phoaks users
Three design principles distinguish it from other computer-mediated collaborative filtering systems: role specialization , reuse and recontextualization
Apropos this desire and the possibilities inherent in the recommendation mining style of collaborative filtering, the Phoaks design strikes a balance between participants' for privacy and desires for connectedness
Annotated Webliography of Downtown Revitalization
An annotated collection of resources including urban renewal, historic preservation,
land use regulations and urban zoning sites of use to planners, architects, ...
Sources are also included providing essays and bibliographies on the history of zoning regulations, the traditional design of cities, the future of the city, the contributions of Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities ( http://www.metropolismag.com/new/content/cities/ap98jane.htm ), and the new directions following trails carved by such people as Andres Duany, originator of the New Urbanism city planning approach ( www.lawrence.edu/dept/anthropology/new_urbanism/newurbanism.html )
Categories to browse for downtown revitalization information include Community and Economic Development, History and Preservation, Land Use, and Urban Design
Published by the PlannersWeb, an independently owned and operated enterprise, this cheerfully designed site offers links to a variety of planning documents
http://www.plannersweb.com/reports/reports.html Due to open at the end of June 1999, this site is designed to link planners with "reports, fact sheets, ordinances, and other planning-related written material (and videos, too)." Users of the site are encouraged to submit appropriate materials for lowcost distribution
InfoDesign: Understanding by Design - News
Digest of knowledge on interaction design and information architecture, including
the web and new media.
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In the later book, he got the story right, though I think hes a little too bullish on the maps originality as a work of information design.' - () PJB @ | Classification: | From: 'In 2001, design and politics hit the news big time when it was revealed that Florida's badly designed butterfly ballot could have cost Al Gore the U.S
It is perhaps the most widely quoted example of the political impact of design
Yet pose the question, 'Is design political?' to the design industry and you'll get back a big, resounding, 'no'.' (Jennie Winhall - ) PJB @ | Classification: | From: 'On the last weekend of September 2006 there will be a conference/retreat on information architecture in Sydney.' () PJB @ | Classification: | From: 'The 2006 Euro IA Summit will take place in Berlin during the last weekend of September (30 September - 1 October)
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Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design.
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