Community-based approaches to participatory design, such as the design workshop,
promise to engage underserved populations in collaborative dialog and provide a platform …

OM not only marginalized across multiple identities but also who, despite the current push
by researchers to serve underserved communities, are still neglected in many technology …

Participatory Design (PD) is envisioned as an approach to democratizing innovation in the
design process by shifting the power dynamics between researcher and participant. Recent …

Co-design methods have involved older adults in the design process to fill the knowledge
gap that younger adult designers might encounter when designing for an aging population …

Churches play a major role in providing social support to address health inequities within
Black communities, in part by connecting members to key organizations and services. While …

Women comprise nearly half of the immigrant population worldwide and are susceptible to a
wider range of health challenges compared to immigrant men. We present the findings of …

Participatory design is positioned as an approach to address community challenges and
reimagine potential futures by decentralizing systems of power and centering the …

The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) aims at securing a lasting impact for
technology-based interventions in the context of social inequities. Increasingly, HCI scholars …

When considering the democratic intentions of co-design, designers and design researchers
must evaluate the impact of power imbalances embedded in common design and research …

Design research has recently turned to theoretical perspectives, including care ethics and
posthumanism, to counter the industrial processes that have led to climate crisis. As design …