The Praxeological Research Programme of Socio-Informatics - the Siegen School

Wulf, Volker; Weibert, Anne; Aal, Konstantin; Rüller, Sarah; Rohde, Markus

doi:10.18267/j.aip.171

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“…The project followed a socioinformatics research paradigm targeting societal inclusion and empowerment through technical artifacts as a design goal and premise of the research process [33]. This understanding of design practice includes the task of establishing and maintaining long-term, everyday-life-oriented, and trust-based research cooperation with target group representatives (ie, study participants).…”

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Practices of Care in Participatory Design With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digitally Mediated Study

Paluch¹,

Černá²,

Kirschsieper³

et al. 2023

J Med Internet Res

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Background Participatory Design (PD), albeit an established approach in User-Centered Design, comes with specific challenges when working with older adults as research participants. Addressing these challenges relates to the reflection and negotiation of the positionalities of the researchers and research participants and includes various acts of giving and receiving help. During the COVID-19 pandemic, facets of positionalities and (mutual) care became particularly evident in qualitative and participatory research settings. Objective The aim of this paper was to systematically analyze care practices of participatory (design) research, which are to different extents practices of the latter. Using a multiyear PD project with older people that had to take place remotely over many months, we specify different practices of care; how they relate to collaborative work in the design project; and represent foundational practices for sustainable, long-term co-design. Our research questions were “How can digitally-mediated PD work during COVID-19 and can we understand such digital PD as ‘care’?” Methods Our data comes from the Joint Programming Initiative “More Years, Better Lives” (JPI MYBL), a European Union project that aims to promote digital literacy and technology appropriation among older adults in domestic settings. It targeted the cocreation, by older adults and university researchers, of a mobile demo kit website with cocreated resources, aimed at improving the understanding of use options of digital tools. Through a series of workshops, a range of current IT products was explored by a group of 21 older adults, which served as the basis for joint cocreative work on generating design ideas and prototypes. We reflect on the PD process and examine how the actors enact and manifest care. Results The use of digital technology allowed the participatory project to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic and accentuated the digital skills of older adults and the improvement of digital literacy as part of “care.” We provide empirically based evidence of PD with older adults developing digital literacy and sensitizing concepts, based on the notion of care by Tronto for differentiating aspects and processes of care. The data suggest that it is not enough to focus solely on the technologies and how they are used; it is also necessary to focus on the social structures in which help is available and in which technologies offer opportunities to do care work. Conclusions We document that the cocreation of different digital media tools can be used to provide a community with mutual care. Our study demonstrates how research participants effectively enact different forms of care and how such “care” is a necessary basis for a genuinely participatory approach, which became especially meaningful as a form of support during COVID-19. We reflect on how notions of “care” and “caring” that were central to the pandemic response are also central to PD.

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Practices of Care in Participatory Design With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digitally Mediated Study

Paluch¹,

Černá²,

Kirschsieper³

et al. 2023

J Med Internet Res

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“…We may add that the notion of SI, in general, frequently suffers from various translation issues, arising from the ambiguity and vagueness of the notions of “informatics” and “social,” which are both already problematic (ie, they have multiple meanings) in English. Therefore, SI is sometimes (back)-translated to English as socioinformatics (Germany), socio-information studies (Japan), or social information science (China) [ 2 , 14 , 44 ].…”

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On the Current Connection and Relation Between Health Informatics and Social Informatics

Smutný

Vehovar

2022

J Med Internet Res

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Scholars from the health and medical sciences have recently proposed the term social informatics (SI) as a new scientific subfield of health informatics (HI). However, SI is not a new academic concept; in fact, it has been continuously used in the social sciences and informatics since the 1970s. Although the dominant understanding of SI was established in the 1990s in the United States, a rich international perspective on SI has existed since the 1970s in other regions of the world. When that perspective is considered, the fields of understanding can be structured into 7 SI schools of thought. Against that conceptual background, this paper contributes to the discussion on the relationship between SI and HI, outlining possible perspectives of SI that are associated with health, medical, and clinical aspects. This paper argues against the multiplication and inconsistent appearance of the term SI when newly used in health and medical sciences. A more explicit name for the area that uses health and social data to advance individual and population health might be helpful to overcome this issue; giving an identity to this new field would help it to be understood more precisely and bring greater separation. This labeling could be fruitful for further segmentation of HI, which is rapidly expanding.

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“…The field of social informatics study has made significant contributions in the form of novel theories and empirical evidence, which enhance our comprehension of the intricate interplay between ICT and their corresponding social and cultural environments [5]. Social informatics is an interdisciplinary topic that facilitates collaboration among scholars from many disciplines, such as information science [6], anthropology [7], computer science [8], sociology [9], and political science [10], to conduct research projects [11]. Social informatics research has the potential to contribute valuable insights to policymaking in the realm of ICT [12], which is achieved via examining and analyzing the social and cultural ramifications that arise from implementing and utilizing various technological advancements [13].…”

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Social informatics and CDIO: revolutionizing technological education

Wibawa,

Nabila,

Utama

et al. 2023

IJELE

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Social informatics is an interdisciplinary area that examines how information and communication technologies (ICT) and the complex web of social and cultural contexts interact and change over time. This study not only helps with the design and use of ICT but also shows how these technologies significantly affect society and culture. It encourages new ideas, collaborations between different fields, and policymaking insights, which drives technological innovation and a better knowledge of how ICT affects society. The Conceive, Design, Implement, operate (CDIO) educational system stands out as a new and innovative teaching method. It emphasizes active learning and gives engineering students both technical and social skills. Its use in social informatics ushers in a new era of education that combines innovation and technology to help students become strong and independent. Future study on CDIO programs in social informatics education has the potential to augment the technical proficiency and social consciousness of graduates, thereby rendering them significant contributors to the field.

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The Praxeological Research Programme of Socio-Informatics - the Siegen School

Cited by 6 publications

References 65 publications

Practices of Care in Participatory Design With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digitally Mediated Study

Practices of Care in Participatory Design With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digitally Mediated Study

On the Current Connection and Relation Between Health Informatics and Social Informatics

Social informatics and CDIO: revolutionizing technological education

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