Examining situated design practices: Nurses' transformations towards genuine participation

Abstract

2018) Examining situated design practices: Nurses' transformations towards genuine participation. Design Studies, vol. X, no. X, pp. X-X. AbstractWe scrutinise the concrete practices of participants' engagement in participatory design through an empirical case in which nurses from different hospital wards began as reluctant users, but gradually engaged in processes approaching genuine participation. We expand a newly proposed, psychologically inspired perspective into a conceptual frame to investigate transformations towards genuine participation. This analytical lens elucidates how participants engage in becoming authentic, credible, attentive and present in participatory endeavours, and how this affects reflection and learning. The case includes the designer's process of becoming a genuine participant during the project. By offering a new take on the concept of genuine participation using a dimension characterised by a genuine, focused presence, we offer our lessons learned from applying the framework.The concepts, meanings and practices associated with participation vary enormously. In the field of participatory design (PD), the idea of 'genuine participation' continues to attract attention from researchers (e.g. Hägerfors, 1994;Luck, 2007;. Scholars understand that the direct involvement of users in the design of the artefact they will use is desirable (Simonsen

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