📢Special Call: We are guest editing a Special Issue in Youth (MDPI) on co-designing youth mental health via participatory and digital approaches. We welcome interdisciplinary work centering youth voice + lived expertise. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Link below. #YouthMentalHealth #ParticipatoryDesign

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Heute spreche ich auf der #fiffkon25 zur gemeinsamen Aushandlung von Technik.
#freesoftware #participatorydesign #beteiligung
Tagungsthema: Digitaler Humanismus für eine techno-öko-soziale Transformation der Weltgesellschaft
Folien:
https://md.chaospott.de/p/v81e8U1sH#/
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Pleased to share our #openaccess paper on #co-creating interventions for #mosquito-borne disease control in hospitals is now in Buildings & Cities! 75+ stakeholders, 4 #hospitals, one collaborative process. See link in comments.

#codesign #malaria #dengue #participatorydesign #publichealth

The Western assumption is that hierarchy is bad, but for many of us, hierarchies can be supportive. In our mentoring program, we consciously acknowledged hierarchical dynamics and chose not to avoid them. #participatorydesign #designresearch #mentoring

669. Share through difference (Japan/Australia). A talk with Yoko Akama - Diseño y Diaspora Yoko Akama⁠ is a Japanese design-researcher based in Australia. She is an Associate Professor of ⁠RMIT University⁠. We talk about a mentoring network that offers peer to peer support to women in Asia....

We learn about the life of the women we were mentoring and also about care, kindness and generosity. Tells us #YokoAkama in this interview @disenoydiaspora.bsky.social

#designresearch #participatorydesign #design #feminism

disenoydiaspora.org/669-share-th...

On #ParticipatoryDesign

Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature: Introducing the Entangled Time Tree The practice of envisioning the future has deep roots in the past. Across the continent of Africa, there are traditions of oral storytelling, griots, …

Gratitude to Naomi Terry a, Azucena Castro a, Bwalya Chibwe a, Geci Karuri-Sebina b, Codruţa Savu a, Laura Pereira and Creative Commons.

#PluralFutures #ParticipatoryDesign

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Cross writes about #ReynerBanham's conference opening (keynote?) which succinctly sums up the "professional man's" (designer!) paradox of wanting to solve problems but not necessarily ever getting to root causes.

#designresearch #codesign #participatorydesign #design

Screenshot of a book cover in red background with white boxes in a grid (suggesting a facade) with one of them in red ornamentation.

Re-working a case study for a journal submission and grateful to have stumbled on this out-of-print gem from 1972 -- Nigel Cross's "Design Participation" (proceedings from a Design Research Society conference). Great range of critique on #participatorydesign #codesign #designpractice.

I’ll be showing our poster at @northumbriauni.bsky.social on 17/07 l

We’re keen to collaborate with care-sector orgs who might want to build on this research.

#CareSector #ParticipatoryDesign #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Designing Health Care Provider–Centered Emergency Department Interventions: Participatory Design Study Background: In the emergency department (ED), health care providers face extraordinary pressures in delivering accurate diagnoses and care, often working with fragmented or inaccessible patient histories while managing severe time constraints and constant interruptions. These challenges and pressures may lead to potential errors in the ED diagnostic process and risks to patient safety. With advances in technology, interventions have been developed to support ED providers in such pressured settings. However, these interventions may not align with the current practices of ED providers. To better design ED provider–centered interventions, identifying their needs in the diagnostic process is critical. Objective: This study aimed to identify ED providers’ needs in the diagnostic process through participatory design sessions and to propose design guidelines for provider‑centered technological interventions that support decision‑making and reduce errors. Methods: We conducted a participatory design study with ED providers to validate their needs and identify considerations for designing ED provider–centered interventions to improve diagnostic safety. We used 9 technological intervention ideas as storyboards to address the study participants’ needs. We had participants discuss the use cases of each intervention idea to assess their needs during the ED care process and facilitated co-design activities with the participants to improve the technological intervention designs. We audio- and video-recorded the design sessions. We then analyzed session transcripts, field notes, and design sketches. In total, we conducted 6 design sessions with 17 ED frontline providers. Results: Through design sessions with ED providers, we identified 4 key needs in the diagnostic process: information integration, patient prioritization, ED provider-patient communication, and care coordination. We interpreted them as insights for designing technological interventions for ED patients. Hence, we discussed the design implications for technological interventions in four key areas: (1) enhancing ED provider–ED provider communication, (2) enhancing ED provider-patient communication, (3) optimizing the integration of advanced technology, and (4) unleashing the potential of artificial intelligence (#AI) tools in the ED to improve diagnosis. This work offers evidence-based technology design suggestions for improving diagnostic processes. Conclusions: This study provides unique insights for designing technological interventions to support ED diagnostic processes. By inviting ED providers into the design process, we present unique insights into the diagnostic process and design considerations for designing novel technological interventions that meet ED providers’ needs in the diagnostic process.

JMIR Formative Res: Designing Health Care Provider–Centered Emergency Department Interventions: Participatory Design Study #Healthcare #EmergencyDepartment #PatientSafety #ParticipatoryDesign #HealthTech

going to #chi2025? into #participatorydesign or similar? hit me up friend <3

On April 4, D-Lab ED Ana Pantelic joined a panel of alumni at the @bupardeeschool.bsky.social to discuss Advancing Human Progress Through Peacebuilding & Development. In her remarks, Ana emphasized the critical role of #participatorydesign & #localinnovation.

#internationaldevelopment

About to send this journal article away and start work on a #chi2026 paper since the #chi2025 conference is coming up.

Equal parts #designfiction and #participatorydesign mixed together around disaster.

So much to do.

Solvang holds participatory design workshop to engage community feedback Participants use cell phones to engage in Solvang's signs of design workshop

Solvang is transforming community engagement with an interactive design workshop that empowers residents to shape the city's future—what will your vision for Solvang be?

Learn more here!

#SolvangSantaBarbaraCounty #CA #CommunityEngagement #ParticipatoryDesign #UrbanPlanning #CitizenPortal

#LearningDesignFrameworks #ParticipatoryDesign

Developing a conceptual framework for participatory design of psychosocial and physical learning environments (2016)

Tiina Mäkelä & Sacha Helfenstein

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please direct me to the accounts on here of good folk doing great work on equity and inclusion in the UX / service design space. #InclusiveUX #Accessibility #ServiceDesign #HumanCentredDesign #DesignJustice #CoDesign #UserExperience #Inclusivity #ParticipatoryDesign #AccessibleUX #UX

Designing Patient-Centered Interventions for Emergency Care: Participatory Design Study Background: Emergency departments (EDs) are high-pressure environments where clinicians diagnose patients under significant constraints, including limited medical histories, severe time pressures, and frequent interruptions. Current ED care practices…

JMIR Formative Res: Designing Patient-Centered Interventions for Emergency Care: Participatory Design Study #PatientCare #EmergencyCare #ParticipatoryDesign #HealthTech #PatientEngagement

One of the tiniest 2-storey restaurants and community spaces in #Tokyo hosted a community design workshop. The event brought together people of all walks of life, brainstorming about the future of the neighbourhood. #socialcapital #participatorydesign

#datascience #participatorydesign

Interested in hearing more? Stop by tomorrow and let's chat~ #contentmoderation #participatorydesign #dataannotation

✍️Some of my recent topics:

📝 air pollution and communication doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📜 Digital public services and inequalities doi.org/10.3390/soc1...

📃 #participatorydesign #platforms Ivan Illich doi.org/10.55612/s-5...

📋 Participatory Design and #NLP doi.org/10.18653/v1/...

Head-Up; An interdisciplinary, participatory and co-design process informing the development of a novel head and neck support for people living with progressive neck muscle weakness This paper presents the Head-Up project, that aims to provide innovative head support to help improve posture, relieve pain and aid communication for people living with progressive neck muscle weak...

Reed, @joelangley.bsky.social and colleagues worked on a project called "head-up" (2015) using #ParticipatoryDesign and #codesign with people living with progressive neck muscle weakness. A really good article with a clear process:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Developing Technology to Mobilize Personal Strengths in People with Chronic Illness: Positive Codesign Approach Background: Emerging research from psychology and the bio-behavioral sciences recognizes the importance of supporting patients to mobilize their personal strengths to live well with chronic illness. P...

Here is an example of #codesign with Integrated design - combining #ParticipatoryDesign & #ServiceDesign

Mirkovic et al. (2018) Developing Technology to Mobilize Personal Strengths in People with Chronic Illness: Positive Codesign Approach.

formative.jmir.org/2018/1/e10774/

Interested in a #phd or #postdoc in #HCI, #CSCW, #XAI, #SocialMedia, #LLMs, or #ParticipatoryDesign?

Join my interdisciplinary research group @CAISnrw in Bochum 🇩🇪🇪🇺 to increase #Trust in #AI

stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=374be6

#phdchat #CHI24 #chi2024