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Date: 3 Apr 2001 17:23:26 -0000 From: sevoy@quark.cpsr.org Subject: CPSR's Participatory Design Conference 2000 Proceedings Available
Designing Digital Environments: Bringing in More Voices
The Participatory Design conferences, held every two years since 1990, have been committed to bringing together researchers and practitioners from the humanities, social sciences, and applied sciences to report on ideas and explore new ways of applying these ideas -- together. The conferences, and their written record in proceedings, journal articles, books and special journal issues, have been rooted in the idea that understanding the use of technology is essential for informing design. In particular the conferences have argued that people who use technology should actively participate in the design and development of the products and services they use.
The conference theme this year, "Designing Digital Environments," was developed by the PDC conference program committee to heighten awareness that the worlds of art and technology are acutely apparent on the web and through the wide-spread use of mobile digital devices. Web and mobile device users are bombarded with often clumsy visual and navigational designs that don't fit their expectations or those from the dot-com "world," are expected to blend art and technology with some technical tools, but with little guidance from those that will try to use their designs. C.P. Snow's warning bell about the persistence of two academic cultures is unfortunately alive and well in the applied commercial world of web design and use. PDC authors and participants are engaged in a long term struggle to bridge the divide through language and actions. Our sub theme of "bringing in more voices" is represented in the papers and summaries in this volume.
The PDC 2000 Proceedings are divided into three parts.
The first section is a collection of scholarly papers reporting on theory and practices by people actively engaged in developing and testing participatory design ideas. The list of contributors includes international and new authors from Australia, Turkey, Japan, as well as researchers from Austria, Germany, England, Scotland and the Scandinavian countries. Papers address participatory processes and politics, tools and techniques, and tactics and strategies. Issues of conflict, dissent and risk are discussed alongside techniques involving workflow, video, and drama. Topics span not only fields bearing directly on computer use, but also architecture, management, labor, healthcare, and graphic design.
The second part of the Proceedings gives an overview of ten Workshops that were presented at the conference. These three-hour Workshops have been an important feature of PDC. They are an active opportunity for people to experience and participate in techniques from areas and disciplines outside their usual sphere. This year the Workshops included techniques in using and understanding psychology, mapping, and planning, and were intended to address participant designers who are children, product users, and citizens. Topics range from pedagogy and learning environments, to ethnography and the design of internet environments, to on-line and off-line community building.
The third part of the Proceedings is a new feature added this year: Works in Progress reports. Since many researchers and practitioners are often involved in stories of participation which go on over a longer period of time, without specific so-called 'scientific' findings, we felt it would be useful to include their stories and reports as well. The work-in-progress reports initiated conversations on trends in information technology design, technology assessment, PD and structural change, and on involving children in participatory design. Several reports address the ethical dimensions of information technology. How can avoiding overconsumption be a challenge that progressive designers address more often? Has the way of thinking about society kept pace with technical development? Other reports show the diversity of approaches and tools used in participatory design. One report applies Activity Theory to analysis and design. Another considers how photography can elicit heterogeneous views on design problems and solutions. In others, collaboration becomes the focus through case studies of design teams and small enterprises.
These Proceedings were printed in a limited number. We plan to make and keep some of the material available on the web, and to publish selected papers as part of a special journal issue. We look forward to ongoing dialogues across the many cultures of design and use of technology.
Todd Cherkasky, Sapient Corporation, USA Joan Greenbaum, City University of New York, USA Peter Mambrey, GMD-FIT, Germany Jens Kaaber Pors, Roskilde University, Denmark
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PAPERS --Dialogue and Dissent in Stories of Community . . . Ian Beeson and Clodagh Miskelly --Evoking The Future:Drama And Props In User Centered Design . . . Eva Brandt and Camilla Grunnet --Taking Video beyond 'Hard Data' in User Centred Design . . . Jacob Buur,Thomas Binder,and Eva Brandt --Participatory Work Flow Analysis: Unveiling Scientific Research Processes with Physical Scientists . . . George Chin,Karen Schuchardt,James Myers,and Debbie Gracio --Participatory Design in Architecture:Can Computers Help? Benjamin Cimerman --Translation Theory and the Integrated Approach in IT Management . . . Hans Doorewaard and Trond Knudsen --Empirically Informed Knowledge Management Systems In Mobile Domains . . . Henrik Fagrell and Fredrik Ljungberg --Deadlines and Work Practices in New Media Development: Its about time . . . Joan Greenbaum and Dagny Stuedahl --Assessing Risks of Participatory Design Projects . . . Johannes Gartner --Quality Function Deployment (QFD)extended Future Workshop: An Approach for Effective and Enjoyable User Participation . . . Niklas Hallberg,Sofie Pilemalm, Sara Jagare, Magnus Irestig,and Toomas Timpka --Being There and Doing IT in the Workplace: A Case Study of a Co-Development Approach in Healthcare . . Mark Hartswood,Rob Procter,Mark Rouncefield,and Michael Sharpe --Intertwining Training and Participatory Design for the Development of Groupware Applications . . . Thomas Herrmann,Kai-Uwe Loser,and Klaus Moysich --Participatory Design in a Commercial Context - A Conceptual Framework . . . Finn Kensing --Participatory Design and Communication in Virtual Environments . . . Mary Lou Maher,Simeon J.Simoff and Gerard C.Gabriel --'God is an Alien':Understanding Informant Responses Through User Participation and Observation . . . William L.Mitchell,Daphne Economou,and Dave Randall --Obstacles To Tele-Cooperation In Engineering Networks Of The Building Industry . . . Bernhard Nett,Paul Fuchs-Frohnhofen,and Volker Wulf --Lessons from Frankenstein on Technology and Society . . Julian E.Orr --From Utopia to DLKManagement of External Voices in Large Participatory Design Projects . . . Sofie Pilemalm,Niklas Hallberg,and Toomas Timpka --An Ethnographic Investigation Of The Learning Of A Teacher- As-Local-Expert In The First Phase Of Introducing Computers Into An Elementary School . . . Hideyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Kato,Etsuji Yamaguchi, and Shigenori Inagaki --From Sandbox to "Fundbox": Weaving Participatory Design Into The Fabric Of A Busy Non-Profit . . . Randall H.Trigg --Self-employed Labor meets Codetermination Participatory Design in Network Organizations . . . Bettina Torpel --Innovation In Use:Interleaving Day-To-Day Operation And Systems Development . . . Alexander Voß,Rob Procter,and Robin Williams --Multiple Voices In The Graphic Design Of A Visual Information System . . . Ina Wagner,Martin Kompast,and Rudiger Lainer --An Approach To Digital Technology Integration In Architectural Curriculum And Studio . . . Rusen Yamacli
WORKSHOPS Mixing Disciplines in Teaching Participatory Design Practices . . Gunnel Andersdotter,Betty Bergqvist,Sara Eriksen,and Yvonne Dittrich --Participatory Design of Internet Environments and Web- Enabled Products and Services . . . Meg Armstrong, Jeanette Blomberg,Jamie Haruch,and Carrie Yury --User Friendly:Dialectic Development Of Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments . . . Danny Choriki,Ellen M.Cooney, Heather Larson,and Mari Millary --Community Informatics:Participatory Tools For Social Inclusion And Active Citizenship . . . Peter Day --Participatory Design with Children:Techniques,Challenges,and Successes . . . Allison Druin,Houman Alborzi,Angela Boltman,Sue Cobb, Jaime Montemayor,Helen Neale, Michele Platner, Jessica Porteous,Lisa Sherman,Kristian Simsarian, Danae Stanton,Yngve Sundblad,and Gustav Taxen --Experiments in Building Participatory Learning Communities on the Internet: Language Learning and Teaching,Collaborative Dictionaries,and Municipal Services . . . Davydd Greenwood,Carla Shafer,Bob Parks, Catherine Ingold,and Richard Brecht --Enabling Communities: Communication and Cooperation in and on Knowledge Landscapes . . . Peter Mambrey and Volkmar Pipek --Generative Tools for Accessing Experience . . . Elizabeth B.-N.Sanders --Designing Digital Environments:Bringing in More "Choices" Leyla Yekdane Tokman and Rusen Yamacli
WORKS IN PROGRESS REPORTS Strategies For Participation Of Learners In Virtual Learning Communities . . . Thomas Berger and Laurent Borgmann --Designing for a Semi-Structured Virtual Group: A Work-in- Progress Report on the Project "Alumni-Web 2000" . . . Werner Beuschel --Characterizing Interactive Web Applications Findings from an Interdisciplinary Research Project . . . Kristian Billeskov Boving,Sisse Finken,Dixi Henriksen, Jens K.Pors,Hanne Westh Nicolajsen,and Lasse Vogelsang --A Case Study where PD Would Have Helped Or Maybe Not?? . . . Olle Balter and Ann Lantz --Mapping out and constructing the needs a pilot study of on-- line public services and citizens involvement . . . Annelie Ekelin --Restructuring PITTMed Curriculum Online (PCO): A Participatory Design/Open Source Software Approach . . Kathleen A.Ferraro --Net Risk:Environmental Information Design,Access,and Literacy . . . Kim Fortun --Participant Stakeholder Evaluation As A Design Method:A Report On Work In Progress . . . Richard Giordano and David Bell --More User Participation by New Media?Media Use in Small Software Firms . . . Annette Henninger and Andrea Sieber --Representing And Constructing Use -An Activity Theoretical Perspective To Design Work . . . Sampsa Hyysalo --Defining the crucial usersAn activity theoretical approach for finding the missing voices . . . Sampsa Hyysalo and Janne Lehenkari --Learning Participatory Design by Participatory Design . . Morten Moth Iversen,Jan Ernfred Madsen,and Jakob Svaneborg Vesterstrom --Emergent Values Conflicts In Formal Process For Managing Innovation: Organizational Obstacles And Affordances For Practice . . . Peter H.Jones --Listening to User Experience: Integrating Technology With Proactive Wellness Management . . . Margaret McCormack and Jodi Forlizzi --Designing for and with a Community of Designers: Minority Disciplines and Communities of Practice . . . Michael J.Muller --Tayloring Inter-Organizational Tele-cooperation A Case Study in the German Steel Industry . . . Bernhard Nett, Giulio Iacucci,and Volker Wulf --Mindtape:A Tool for Reflection in Participatory Design . . Janni Nielsen and Nina Christiansen --From Database Design to Community Mobilization:PD in Sri Lanka's Energy Sector . . . Dean Nieusma --Picturing Commutes:Informant Photography and Urban Design . . . Jason W.Patton --Open Source Social Science: Web Tools for Collaborative Analysis of Ethics and Technology . . . Alex Sokoloff,Virginia Eubanks,Kim Fortun,and Mike Fortun --Interaction to Improve Quality Of Design . . . Leyla Yekdane Tokman --Media Determinism and the Social Design of Web Based Computing . . . William B.Warner --Author Index --Keyword Index
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PDC 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Phil Agre, University of California Los Angeles, USA Peter v. d. Besselaar, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jeanette Blomberg, Sapient Corp., San Francisco, USA Jorn Braa, University of Oslo, Norway Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway Debra Cash, New Century Enterprises, Belmont, MA, USA Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada Peter Day, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milano, Italy Frank Emspak, University of Wisconsin, USA Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Batya Friedman, Colby College, USA Davydd Greenwood, Cornell University, USA Joe Glick, City University of New York, USA Thomas Herrmann, University of Dortmund, Germany Finn Kensing, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA David Levinger, QpassTM, USA Kim Halskov Madsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Terry Mizrahi, City University of New York, USA Michael Muller, Lotus Development Corp., USA Agneta Ranerup, Goteburg University, Sweden Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sidney, Australia Mike Robinson, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Pat Sachs, Social Solutions, USA Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA Susan Leigh Star, University of California, USA Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK Randall Trigg, The Global Fund for Women, USA Ina Wagner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Coralee Whitcomb, CPSR, USA Volker Wulf, University of Bonn, Germany
See http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000/
PDC 2000 Proceedings are available from CPSR for $20 (a 20% discount) to CPSR members, and $25 for non-members. Postage is an additional $3 in the U.S., and $7 outside the U.S.
Previous PDC Proceedings are also available. See http://www.cpsr.org/publications/publications.html
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