Special issue on participatory design

Designing Simulation-Based Training for Prehospital Emergency Care: Participation from a Participant Perspective

“…The project is a joint multi-disciplinary, user-researcher effort, where the views of PD as stated by [9] have been applied. The aim of the study reported in this paper was to investigate users' experiences of their project participation in order to identify and understand what makes such a project be running well.…”

“…A movement that provides an approach for user participation is participatory design (PD) whose roots are participatory democracy [9], where cooperative design work is emphasized and users are viewed as co-designers [22,23]. Olsson and Janson [24] have identified several values that are important to create a good atmosphere between users and designer: mutual respect; active participation on equal terms; common goal; common language; to listen; refrain from immediate implementation thinking; simple tools that reveal what work is about; and to document findings.…”

“…The project presented in this paper applies the views of PD as stated by [9]: "every participant in a PD project is an expert in what they do, whose voice needs to be heard; that design ideas arise in collaboration with participants from diverse backgrounds; that PD practitioners prefer to spend time with users in their environment rather than 'test' them in laboratories" [9, p. 213]. Hence, user participation should take place in a way that gives high value to the project and the final product as well as makes everyone involved feel comfortable in the situation [7].…”

Gestão De Design Para Sustentabilidade Com Base Na Política Nacional De Resíduos Sólidos: Uma Proposta De Integração

“…É também para envolver as pessoas na adaptação significativa e proposital para mudar a sua vida diária. (SANOFF, 2007) Nesse contexto, Vezzolli (2010) argumenta que o design operaria como um facilitador e promotor de inovações de sistemas que resultariam em iniciativas/empreendimentos ecoeficientes e socialmente justos e coesos. Um ponto chave destas discussões é a abordagem do design sob a perspectiva da configuração dos atores envolvidos, com intuito de criar e promover formas de interação e de parcerias inovadoras entre atores.…”

Identifying Objectives for a Learning Space Management System with Value-focused Thinking

“…In participatory design, the following statements are understood as guiding principles: participants from diverse Table 1: Methodological approaches to achieve participation and involvement (Kujala, 2003 (Sanders et al, 2010;Sanoff, 2007), participants have the right to influence technological decisions affecting their private and professional lives (Bergvall-Kåreborn and Ståhlbrost, 2008), and especially, participatory design is seen as appropriate in the context of special needs (Benton et al, 2014;Frauenberger et al, 2011;Guha et al, 2008;Malinverni et al, 2014). Thus, we have based our workshops on participatory design to adopt these principles and we have implemented value-focused thinking as a requirements elicitation technique.…”