Distributed participatory design

Abstract

Over the years a consensus has developed that involving users directly in the software development process can lead to more useful and usable systems. This has found its clearest expression in the Participatory Design (PD) movement. However, a limitation of PD is that it has primarily focused on project stakeholders being co-located, whereas in recent years we are starting to see software development projects involve more distributed collaborations. This workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners with an interest to overcome the challenges of performing PD in distributed design teams. Several critical issues need examination in order to understand the usefulness and constraints of distributed participatory design (DPD).

Design Participativo em Ambientes Distribuídos de Desenvolvimento de Software Educacional Livre: desafios de pesquisa

“…O DP se torna desafiador quando os stakeholders estão geograficamente distribuídos [Danielsson et al 2006]. Assim, aárea de pesquisa de DPD surgiu da necessidade de tornar possível o DP em ambientes distribuídos de desenvolvimento de software.…”

Comparing Paper and Software Tool for Participatory Design from Scratch

“…This was done due to several assumed beneficial qualities of software tools over paper (Naghsh and Andy, 2004;Walsh et al, 2012;Heintz et al, 2014;Walsh and Foss 2015). Software tools are often developed to support distributed PD (DPD) activities (Gumm, 2006;Danielsson et al, 2008;Lohmann, Ziegler, and Heim, 2008;Walsh, 2011), where digital data simplifies the exchange between end-users and designers. Nevertheless, software tools could also have advantages over paper in a co-located setting, for example supporting undo and redo, which is more complicated (undo) or even impossible (redo) on paper.…”

Pdot

“…Participatory design (PD) has a broad meaning, ranging from democratizing workplaces to including end-users in the product development process [2]. In this paper the following definition of PD is adopted [1]: "Participatory design -also called cooperative designis the inclusion of users or user representatives within a development team, such that they actively help in setting design goals and planning prototypes".…”