This paper focuses on evaluation in Participatory Design (PD), and especially upon how the
central aims of mutual learning, empowerment, democracy and workplace quality have been …

We investigate the diversity of participatory design research practice, based on a review of
ten years of participatory design research published as full research papers at the …

We describe a new method for use in the process of co-designing technologies with users
called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies …

We trace how cultural probes have been adopted and adapted by the HCI community. The
flexibility of probes has been central to their uptake, resulting in a proliferation of divergent …

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the
design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a …

In this paper, we investigate how the choice of media for capture and access affects the diary
study method. The diary study is a method of understanding participant behavior and intent …

The social sciences have recently shown a revival of interest in space and place. In this
“spatial turn” the place is seen as a “place-in-process”(Thrift, 2008) and as the emergent …

In user-centered design, attention has shifted from improving usability and addressing
ergonomic problems to wider perspectives such as experiences in everyday life. This shift …

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to
innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular …

This paper describes a new digital user study tool called Mobile Probes. Mobile Probes
arose from a need to develop contextual and dynamic self-documenting tools for studying …