Symmetry of Ignorance and Informed Participation― Analyzing the Synergy of Related, But Different Approaches to Participatory Design of three Research Centers

摘要

The field of participatory design grew out of work beginning in the early 1970s in Norway, when computer professionals worked with members of unions to enable the workers to have more influence on the design and introduction of computer systems into the workplace. Participatory Design (PD) is considered, understood, and practiced as a set of diverse ways of thinking, planning, and acting through which people make their work, technologies, and social institutions more responsive to human needs. The wide-spread use of computers and the emergence of the Internet have opened new challenges for PD transcending the initial focus of information system design toward a broad range of digital technology including web-based, mobile, ubiquitous and new media environments.