This workshop is the second in a series of workshops covering the topic of distributed participatory design (DPD). The first workshop was held at NordiCHI 2006, which brought together participants from both academia and industry. The aim of the first workshop was to scope the domain of DPD by identifying some of its challenges.
Participatory Design (PD) is a technique that promotes the direct participation of stakeholders (especially end-users) in system analysis and design. It is believed that such direct participation can lead to more useful and usable systems. In order to facilitate PD a number of techniques, such as PICTIVE and CARD, and tools, such as GABBEH and PSPD, to name just a few examples have been developed. However, a limitation of such techniques and tools is that they are primarily focused on project stakeholders being colocated, whereas today there is a growing trend towards distributed software development. Therefore, this workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners with an interest to overcome the challenges of performing PD in distributed design teams, namely Distributed Participatory Design (DPD).
This one-day workshop hosted at CHI 2008 (www.chi2008.org) aims to explore the challenges and solutions of DPD. We are particularly interested in hearing about successes and failures of processes and tools used in DPD. Thus, the workshop will address, but is not limited to, the following questions:
