Expressive interactions - supporting collaboration in urban design

Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers - Volume 1

2012

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This paper uses the example of a participatory design project in support of urban planning to analyse the complexity of design decisions. A set of design decisions is described and discussed, showing who made decisions on what. We discuss big decisions and small decisions, decisions internal to the project and related to the outside world, and decisions that might be called non-decisions. A conceptual framework on power is applied for understanding decision-making, power and conflict in Participatory Design projects. We discuss the concept of power, making distinctions between sources of power (among them expert knowledge, resource allocation, values, and interpretations); as well as between various mechanisms guiding decision-making: power, influence, trust and seeking understanding.

Section: Panoramas As Representations Of the Sitementioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling power and decision-making in participatory design

Bratteteig

Proceedings of the 12th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers - Volume 1

2012

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128

“…In this showcase a multi-disciplinary team collaborates with experienced and highly engaged urban planners in exploring urban issues, developing concepts for technology design, developing scenarios for evaluation workshops, and re-designing, in a typical participatory design process. The mixed-reality tools we are developing in this project are a rather complex assembly of ColorTable, barcode interface, tangible 3D visualization, sound application, and Urban sketcher, all of them hosted in a MR (mixed reality)-Tent [12]. The ColorTable is the basis for a number of prototypes.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ColorTable

Maquil

Psik

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction

2008

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The paper describes the design story of the ColorTable, a tangible user interface in support of urban planners and diverse stakeholders collaboratively envisioning urban change, which was developed in an iterative process of design-evaluation-feedback-redesign in a series of workshops with users in the context of real urban planning projects. It seeks to clarify a number of more general design issues related to tangible user interfaces -how to make use of material and spatial properties in designing both, physical interface and multiple and simultaneous interactions; how to handle the complexity of urban projects while keeping interfaces and interactions simple and transparent.

“…Analysis focuses on three key concepts for the understanding of embodied interaction: spatiality, hapticity, and representation, and reflects on the benefits of a finegrained multimodal analysis for the design of collaborative (mixed reality) technologies (see e.g. Maquil et al 2007). …”

Section: (Studies Of) Design Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The multidisciplinary design group in Vienna

Proceedings of the ACM 2011 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Tellioğlu

2011

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This showcase paper describes the research of the Multidisciplinary Design Group, Vienna University of Technology, over the course of more than 20 years. It discusses this research and the contributions to CSCW resulting from it, under four headings: work practices in health care; studies of design practice and development of supporting technologies; coordination work and technologies; and gender studies, identifying the 'factors' that shaped the group's engagement in specific projects and the analytical frameworks they developed in collaboration with international cooperation partners.