Participatory Design Landscape for the Human-Machine Collaboration, Interaction and Automation at the Frontiers of HCI (PDL 2021)

TL;DR

This paper discusses a workshop focused on participatory design in HCI, exploring new frontiers involving complex technologies, remote collaboration, and user engagement in co-design processes.

Contribution

It introduces a transdisciplinary workshop aimed at sharing experiences and exploring innovative participatory design approaches at the frontiers of HCI.

Findings

Identified challenges in participatory design for complex and emerging technologies.

Explored opportunities for remote and distributed co-design approaches.

Highlighted the importance of engaging end users in innovative HCI practices.

Abstract

We propose a one-day transdisciplinary creative workshop in the broad area of HCI focused on multiple opportunities of incorporating participatory design into research and industry practice. This workshop will become a venue to share experiences and novel ideas in this area. At the same time, we will brainstorm and explore frontiers of HCI related to engaging end users in design and development practices of established and emerging ICT solutions often overlooked in terms of co-design. We welcome a wide scope of contributions in HCI which explore sustainable opportunities for participatory design and development practices in the context of interconnected business, social, economic and environmental issues. The contributions ought to explore challenges and opportunities related to co-design at the frontiers of HCI - participatory design of newest and complex technologies, not easily explainable or intuitive, novel collaborative (remote or distributed) approaches to empowering users to prepare them to contribute as well as to engaging them directly in co-design.