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Best paper honorable mention award: ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems

  • Vines, John (Recipient), Clarke, Rachel (Recipient), Wright, Peter (Recipient), McCarthy, John (Recipient) & Olivier, Patrick (Recipient)

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Description

Configuring participation: on how we involve people in design

The term 'participation' is traditionally used in HCI to describe the involvement of users and stakeholders in design processes, with a pretext of distributing control to participants to shape their technological future. In this paper we ask whether these values can hold up in practice, particularly as participation takes on new meanings and incorporates new perspectives. We argue that much HCI research leans towards configuring participation. In exploring this claim we explore three questions that we consider important for understanding how HCI configures participation; Who initiates, directs and benefits from user participation in design? In what forms does user participation occur? How is control shared with users in design? In answering these questions we consider the conceptual, ethical and pragmatic problems this raises for current participatory HCI research. Finally, we offer directions for future work explicitly dealing with the configuration of participation.
Degree of recognitionInternational
Granting OrganisationsACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)

Awarded at event

Event titleInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2013
LocationParis, FranceShow on map
Period27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013