ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |17 pages

Participatory Design

An introduction

part |191 pages

Participatory Design – contributions and challenges

chapter |16 pages

Heritage

Having a say

chapter |27 pages

Design

Design Matters in Participatory Design

chapter |22 pages

Ethics

Engagement, representation and politics-in-action

chapter |31 pages

Ethnography

Positioning ethnography within Participatory Design

chapter |28 pages

Methods

Organising principles and general guidelines for Participatory Design projects

chapter |37 pages

Tools and techniques

Ways to engage telling, making and enacting

chapter |28 pages

Communities

Participatory Design for, with and by communities

part |70 pages

Outstanding applications of Participatory Design

chapter |22 pages

Health Information Systems Programme

Participatory Design within the HISP network

chapter |24 pages

ACTION for Health

Influencing technology design, practice and policy through Participatory Design