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Enhancing commitment to participatory design initiatives

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Naska Goagoses,

Asnath Paula Kambunga,

Heike Winschiers-TheophilusAuthors Info & Claims

PDC '18: Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210613

Published: 20 August 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Increased participants' commitment* to participatory design (PD) initiatives can lead to sustainability beyond the project period. Although commitment is endorsed in theory, it is often overlooked or incorrectly assumed in practice; we thus introduce a technique grounded in motivational psychology, aiming to increase commitment to individual goals that contribute to a common group goal within a PD initiative. We present a case study of unemployed youth, participating in the design of an appropriate localized technology adoption strategy. A commitment workshop attempted to align individual goals and actions of the participants to enhance group achievement and extend individual commitment and activities beyond the project. A follow-up three months after the workshop indicates sustained commitment among participants. We conclude that the technique is viable in establishing participants' commitment, yet needs further refinements informed by more empirical work.

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Enhancing commitment to participatory design initiatives
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing

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PDC '18: Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2

August 2018

230 pages

ISBN:9781450355742

DOI:10.1145/3210604

Editors:
Liesbeth Huybrechts
Hasselt University, Belgium
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Maurizio Teli
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
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Ann Light
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
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Yanki Lee
Enable Foundation, Hong Kong China/Linnaeus University, Sweden
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Carl Di Salvo
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
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Erik Grönvall
IT Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Anne Marie Kanstrup
Aalborg University, Denmark
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Keld Bødker
Roskilde Uniuversity, Denmark

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Bettega MMasu RHansen NTeli M(2022)Off-the-shelf digital tools as a resource to nurture the commonsProceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 110.1145/3536169.3537787(133-146)Online publication date: 19-Aug-2022
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Keskinen PArvila NWinschiers-Theophilus HLungameni AKambunga ALaurikainen RNieminen M(2021)Local tech mediators - a human access point to global crowdfunding platformsCoDesign10.1080/15710882.2021.191277618:4(483-502)Online publication date: 15-Apr-2021
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