P for Politics D for Dialogue

Abstract

Participatory Design strives to open up the decision-making process and empower all those who may be affected by design. This is opposed to Design as a non-participatory process, in which the power to make decisions is vested in the hands of one group to the possible detriment of others. In this paper we interrogate the nature, possibilities and limitations of Participatory Design through the perspective of Child Computer Interaction (CCI) and Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Due to the cognitive and communication characteristics, and to the social and legal status of their participants, researchers in these communities have to contend with and challenge existing notions of participation and design. Thus, their theories and practices provide a lens through which the nature and goals of Participatory Design can be examined with a view to facilitating the development of more inclusive participatory models and practices. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interaction design → Interaction design process and methods → Participatory design

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space

“…This was exacerbated by methodological differences wthin the project. While both Performance-led Research [5,6] and Participatory ACI [10,34,65] are design-oriented methods that share a common underlying subjectivist/interpretivist epistemology, there are important differences between them. Artist-led design relies on the professional judgement of artists to make appropriate ethical choices and carefully judge boundaries [5].…”