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Does AI make PD obsolete?: exploring challenges from artificial intelligence to participatory design

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Tone Bratteteig,

Guri VerneAuthors Info & Claims

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

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210646

Published: 20 August 2018 Publication History

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In this paper¹, we explore if and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenges Participatory Design (PD). We base our analysis on the basic characteristics of AI and its subfield Machine Learning and discuss how and what kinds of design decisions users are able to participate in when technology that includes AI is designed. We conclude that AI challenges PD but that classic PD methods can be useful for parts of the design process. However, AI poses new challenges to PD all originating in the fact that AI technologies change unpredictably over time.

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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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