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Join the Park!: Exploring Opportunities to Lower the Participation Divide in Park Communities
No full textThe current work explores the participation divide that is oftentimes at play within local citizen communities. The studied case illustrates a common situation where the majority of local citizens does not participate in public space improvement and maintenance activities organised by local community activists. The presented research involved semi-structured interviews supported by interactive service design probes. It has led to two strategies for stimulating community participation, namely 1) increasing transparency around community activities, and 2) embedding community participation in citizens' daily social practices.System EngineeringDesign Conceptualization and Communicatio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Design for Healthy Horizons in a Local Community:Digital relations in a neighbourhood with health challenges
No full textCommunities and social support are considered to be important for people's ability to cultivate a healthy lifestyle. Yet, digital technology for everyday health predominantly focuses on individual use and performance optimisation. In this paper, we present how we have designed a mobile application to support community collaboration around health based on a conceptual model aiming at bringing a horizon of connectedness with health to residents in a local community. The research is conducted as a long-term participatory design process in a neighbourhood with low socio-economic status and significant health challenges. We introduce a community perspective on everyday health and the co-designed application focused on local collaboration around physical activity. Via workshops with residents and community workers, we critically examine opportunities and challenges for the application's ability to form a horizon and facilitate community collaboration around health in the neighbourhood.</p
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Collective Consciousness: What could this mean and how do we research and design (with) it?
No full textThis workshop is the first step towards an emerging research community that problematises aspects related to collective consciousness. Collective consciousness sits at the intersection of - and goes beyond - research on Collective Intelligence, Collective Awareness and Behavioural Change. One of the goals of this workshop is to construct a working definition of collective consciousness which responds to a realised shortcoming in our understanding of digital technologies in mediating the transactions between people's capability to be aware and reflect, and their capacity to change behaviour and take action. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who have an explicit intent to work critically with how digital technologies augment our collective experiences and behaviours
Understanding Failures and Potentials of Argumentation Tools for Public Deliberation
No full textArgument mapping technologies have been historically proposed in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer Supported Argument Visualisation (CSAV) research to improve online deliberation practices, but they have hardly overcome issues of non-expert users' uptake. This paper presents LiteMap a novel online collaborative argument mapping tool which combines web annotation with light-weight argument mapping features to enable visual summarisation and sensemaking of public online debates. Lessons learned from a user study indicate that LiteMap can be effectively used by untrained users to collectively summarize online discussion forum conversations. LiteMap is reported to improve self-reflection on both, group performance and assessment of the quality of an online conversation. The use of the argument mapping tool has also enhanced the mappers' understanding of the nature of the debated issues. Nonetheless, map creators have reported the need for parallel negotiation channels to disambiguate meaning and manage disagreement while co-creating an argument map
Institutioning and community radio. A comparative perspective
Get PDFIn recent years, designers have pointed to the role of institutioning, the way in which design processes and institutions are mutually shaped, constrained and enabled. This paper seeks to expand this discussion to the field of grassroots communities, a concept that enlightens the intersection between geographic communities and communities of interests/practice. The research draws on empirical work exploring the different experiences in four distinct socio-cultural and institutional contexts of Uganda, Ireland, Portugal and Romania to investigate how institutioning relate to the design of a new form of community radio based on an innovative technology. It also explores what are the practices that designers and grassroots communities use to manage and navigate potential constraints of institutioning, and offers comparative insight into how institutioning influences the design outcome. Using the concept of institutioning, we will show how, in this interaction, the grassroots communities in the making overcome the "space vs interest" dichotomy, and how institutions as well as communities play a role in shaping - and are potentially shaped by - the design process
Digital Relations among Youth with Cognitive Disabilities:A field study of technology use for developing and maintaining social relations
No full textIn this study, we explore how young people living with cognitive disabilities use digital technology to develop and maintain social relations. The analysis is based on video interviews with 25 participants, aged 14-27. Our findings present a comprehensive use of a wide range of consumer applications for multiple forms of social interactions among the young people. Against this background, we outline three overall experiences with social interaction via and around digital technology, involving 1) individual social relations, 2) interest-based groups and 3) national and global networks. Our findings draw attention to the participants' social needs and show how they find ways to fulfil these needs via and around digital technology. These insights complement dominating perspectives on disability and assistive technology and suggest future research focusing on how to advance insights and practices in using digital technology to develop and maintain social relations among youth with cognitive disabilities</p
Designing Eco-Feedback Systems for Communities:Interrogating a Techno-solutionist Vision for Sustainable Communal Energy
Get PDFThe notion of establishing energy communities where householders collectively participate in using renewable energy is highly topical. In this paper, we interrogate a design vision of sustainable communal energy developed through a techno-solutionist narrative. The vision is exemplified in a recommendation-based mobile app, the Community Energy Planner app, that provides individual and collective energy feedback on renewable energy actions. To obtain insights into how householders understand and experience embedding such recommended communal energy feedback into domestic energy-consuming practices, we deployed the app with six households for one month. Through a qualitative study, we report on householders’ experiences living with the app on an individual and at a community level. Our findings are presented in four themes, revealing that recommended feedback on individual and collective energy actions is challenging to align with the messiness of domestic life. Finally, we discuss alternative design visions for sustainable communal energy. The main contribution of this paper is twofold: 1) a field deployment study of a techno-solutionist narrative of communal energy facilitated through an app and, 2) a discussion on alternatives to this design vision
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