Routledge international handbook of participatory design

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QA76.9.S88 R675 2013
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Summary

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions more responsive to human needs, the International Handbook of Participatory Design is a state-of-the-art reference handbook for the subject.

The Handbook brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of highly recognized and experienced experts to present an authoritative overview of the field and its history and discuss contributions and challenges of the pivotal issues in participatory design, including heritage, ethics, ethnography, methods, tools and techniques and community involvement. The book also highlights three large-scale case studies which show how participatory design has been used to bring about outstanding changes in different organizations.

The book shows why participatory design is an important, highly relevant and rewarding area for research and practice. It will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars and professionals in participatory design.

Contents

1. Participatory Design: an introduction / Toni Robertson and Jesper Simonsen -- 2. Heritage: having a say / Finn Kensing and Joan Greenbaum -- 3. Design: design matters in Participatory Design / Liam J. Bannon and Pelle Ehn -- 4. Ethics: engagement, representation and politics-in-action / Toni Robertson and Ian Wagner -- 5. Ethnography: positioning ethnography with Participatory Design / Jeanette Blomberg and Helena Karasti -- 6. Methods: organising principles and general guidelines for Participatory Design projects / Tone Bratteteig ... [et al.] -- 7. Tools and techniques: ways to engage telling, making and enacting / Eva Brandt, Thomas Binder and Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders -- 8. Communities: Participatory Design for, with and by communities / Carl DiSalvo, Andrew Clement and Volkmar Pipek -- 9. Integrating Participatory Design into everyday work at the Global Fund for women / Randy Trigg and Karen Ishimaru -- 10. Health Information Systems Programme: Participatory Design within the HISP network / Jør Braa and Sundeep Sahay -- 11, ACTION for health: influencing technology design, practice and policy through Participatory Design / Ellen Balka.

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