Planning the world's most inclusive PD project

Abstract

Inclusivity is central to Participatory Design (PD) practice, but despite significant efforts in IDC and beyond, it is still hard to achieve during PD, because of a series of barriers (e.g. access to users, language). Such barriers increase especially when it comes to ensuring and supporting the participation of children with varying or complex needs, or when prospective participants are geographically distributed. This workshop aims to create the basis of a distributed PD (DPD) protocol to provide practical advice in overcoming the challenges of ensuring inclusivity for children with varying or complex needs around the world. The protocol will build on the participants' prior experience and on a live PD design session with children and adults, and be guided by discussions around approaches to address a specific design problem while maximising inclusivity across geographical boundaries and research contexts. It is intended to become a springboard for the world's most inclusive Distributed PD project.

Participatory Design of the World’s Largest DPD Project with Children

“…Sessions B and C will be the co-design of the research protocol for the World's Largest DPD Project. The organisers will provide a template, with notes based on the results of last year's workshop [4] as a starting framework. The protocol to be developed will include:…”

“…In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that online PD is increasingly being adopted by PD researchers, because it enables people who are not co-located to participate in and contribute to a project (physical distribution) [4,5,12]. In spite of coming with its own difficulties and barriers (e.g.…”

“…This workshop builds on several successful workshops and a SIG at CHI2019 [2], INTERACT2019 [9], and IDC2019-2020 [3,4] which have explored PD, DPD, and supporting children with special needs during PD/DPD. In last year's workshop [4], our aim was to design the World's Most Inclusive PD project; the outputs built a strong foundation resulting in a better understanding of the context [1].…”

“…This workshop builds on several successful workshops and a SIG at CHI2019 [2], INTERACT2019 [9], and IDC2019-2020 [3,4] which have explored PD, DPD, and supporting children with special needs during PD/DPD. In last year's workshop [4], our aim was to design the World's Most Inclusive PD project; the outputs built a strong foundation resulting in a better understanding of the context [1]. This year, with a more mature understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and the international situation surrounding it, we will build on the outcomes of the last workshop and focus on creating a protocol for the World's Largest PD project.…”

Co-Designing Personal Health? Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care Technologies

“…Co-design has been shown to be powerful in tackling wicked problems, exploring the design space of desirable technology, and fostering mutual learning between multidisciplinary team members [8,66,68]. For example, prior work has demonstrated the benefits of participatory approaches to exploring interactive machine learning [4,36], addressing ethical implications, such as AI fairness [50,73], and supporting people with health and wellbeing conditions in expressing and coping with their lived experiences [19,63,78]. The benefits of codesign, such as collective creativity and mutual learning, are well-documented.…”