Living labs are robust structures created with the aim to contribute to addressing societal problems by establishing long-term collaborations among various stakeholders. They often involve the use of co-creative and participatory methods and are anchored ...

Participatory design in digital civics aims to foster mutual learning and co-creation between public services and citizens. However, rarely do we collectively explore the challenges and failures we experience within PD and digital civics, to enable us ...

Ethics toolkits, checklists and workshops are intended to help integrate ethical considerations into the design of data-driven systems. Yet little is known about what long-term effect such integrations might have. We conducted an ethnographic ...

Smart home systems assist us with ever more tasks. Especially in home contexts, a balance must be found between keeping the technology in the background and making it transparent and understandable to users. Our research approaches this by a concept for ...

Recommender systems shape online experiences, but their complexity often hinders user understanding. Explainable recommender systems address this by providing meaningful explanations. Our research explores how explanations can be tailored to individual ...

To support learning, students need to be able to control their time and attention when using digital devices like smartphones and laptops for study-related tasks. However, self-regulation skills are rarely discussed as a basic part of digital literacy. ...