New challenges for participation in participatory design in family, clinical and other asymmetrical, non-work settings

Abstract

Participatory design (PD) has taken as its ideal that designers and users should engage in an equal language game. When we apply PD in contexts where some of the users involved are weak, ill, or have impairments, this assumed equality can no longer be an ideal. The workshop explores new ideals for participatory design in non-work settings with highly heterogeneous user constellations. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.