PADRE: A Method for Participatory Action Design Research

Designing Visualizations for Workplace Stress Management: Results of a Pilot Study at a Swiss Municipality

“…A particular characteristic of ADR is the preference of authenticity over controlled settings [24]. Accordingly, ADR is often conducted in field studies where the design of new artifacts is performed in a real-world setting, in a participatory manner together with dedicated users and/or pilot organizations [25]. In this sense, researchers and practitioners form what Sein and colleagues refer to as "ADR team" whose initial goal is to develop a mutual understanding of the scope, focus, and mode of inquiry before starting to build solutions.…”

Work-Integrated Learning as an Outcome of Using Action Design Research in Practice

“…Subsequently, early theories of action, organizational learning, and reflective practice [51][52], are ideas that have been adopted and integrated into the designated stage of reflection and learning in the ADR-framework. Several recent extensions of ADR [53][54] have attempted to elaborate the participatory aspect with an emphasis on cycles of reflective learning through practice.…”

Taking Action: Extending Participatory Action Design Research with Design Thinking

“…However, ADR focusses on organizational and business needs and is lacking the integration of a larger variety of stakeholders into the design process, which has been identified as highly beneficial, similar as co-creation concepts. Ongoing research addresses this issue by carrying out ADR in a participatory manner (Bilandzic & Venable, 2011;Haj-Bolouri, Bernhardsson & Rossi, 2016). Derived from PD (Kensing & Blomberg, 1998), participatory ADR refers to the paradigm of letting developers, practioners and end-users take part in every single step of the research process instead of solely including them as survey participants or for experimental observations (Haj-Bolouri et al, 2016).…”

“…Ongoing research addresses this issue by carrying out ADR in a participatory manner (Bilandzic & Venable, 2011;Haj-Bolouri, Bernhardsson & Rossi, 2016). Derived from PD (Kensing & Blomberg, 1998), participatory ADR refers to the paradigm of letting developers, practioners and end-users take part in every single step of the research process instead of solely including them as survey participants or for experimental observations (Haj-Bolouri et al, 2016). Even though, participatory ADR-frameworks are rigoursly derived and developed from theory and address an important aspect, they lack in providing a clear, easy to follow and structured process model which inhibits their practical applicability.…”

“…The DT mindset is ideally suited to work on innovative solutions for complex problems in diverse teams (Buchanan, 1992). Therefore, we first give an introduction into the basic ADR concepts as well as the particpatory ADR advancements by Haj-Bolouri, Bernhardsson & Rossi (2016) and Bilandzic & Venable (2011). After that, we focus on the DT procedure in detail and give an explanation, why we think it is ideally suited for Action Taking in participatory ADR projects (see Figure 2).…”