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An examination of the knowledge barriers in participatory design and the prospects for embedded research

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1738826.1738890

Published: 23 November 2009 Publication History

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Participatory design has the moral and pragmatic tenet of including those who will be most affected by a design into the design process. However, good participation is hard to achieve and results linking project success and degree of participation are inconsistent. Through three case studies examining some of the challenges that different properties of knowledge -- novelty, difference, dependence -- can impose on the participatory endeavour we examine some of the consequences to the participatory process of failing to bridge across knowledge boundaries -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. One pragmatic consequence, disrupting the user's feeling of involvement to the project, has been suggested as a possible explanation for the inconsistent results linking participation and project success. To aid in addressing these issues a new form of participatory research, called embedded research, is proposed and examined within the framework of the case studies and knowledge framework with a call for future research into its possibilities.

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7

November 2009

445 pages

ISBN:9781605588544

DOI:10.1145/1738826

Conference Chair:
Marcus Foth
Queensland University of Technology
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Jesper Kjeldskov
Aalborg University
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Jeni Paay
CSIRO

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