As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives,
there is a great deal of hope about the use of information
technology to achieve positive community outcomes like
increasing access to local information, promoting civic
engagement, and creating avenues for collaboration and
communication. While these technologies provide
opportunities for community groups to achieve their own
goals, most community computing studies describe
community members in fairly passive ways as users of
existing systems rather than as meaningful contributors to the
design process. The Civic Nexus project is a three year
participatory design project that involves working with
community groups to increase their capacity to solve local
community problems through the use of leading edge
computing tools. Our view of participatory design is one in
which community members take control of the design process
in terms of both directing what should be done and
maintaining the technology infrastructure. In this paper, we
describe our process of participatory design with three
community groups and present associated challenges for
designers engaging in participatory design in community
computing context
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%1 merkel2004pdc
%A Merkel, Cecelia B.
%A Xiao, Lu
%A Farooq, Umer
%A Ganoe, Craig H.
%A Lee, Roderick
%A Carroll, John M.
%A Rosson, Mary Beth
%D 2004
%I ACM Press New York, NY, USA
%J Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices-Volume 1
%K community computing design impact information participatory social systems
%P 1-10
%T Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field
%U http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/lxiao1/nexus.pdf
%X As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives,
there is a great deal of hope about the use of information
technology to achieve positive community outcomes like
increasing access to local information, promoting civic
engagement, and creating avenues for collaboration and
communication. While these technologies provide
opportunities for community groups to achieve their own
goals, most community computing studies describe
community members in fairly passive ways as users of
existing systems rather than as meaningful contributors to the
design process. The Civic Nexus project is a three year
participatory design project that involves working with
community groups to increase their capacity to solve local
community problems through the use of leading edge
computing tools. Our view of participatory design is one in
which community members take control of the design process
in terms of both directing what should be done and
maintaining the technology infrastructure. In this paper, we
describe our process of participatory design with three
community groups and present associated challenges for
designers engaging in participatory design in community
computing context
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abstract = {As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives,
there is a great deal of hope about the use of information
technology to achieve positive community outcomes like
increasing access to local information, promoting civic
engagement, and creating avenues for collaboration and
communication. While these technologies provide
opportunities for community groups to achieve their own
goals, most community computing studies describe
community members in fairly passive ways as users of
existing systems rather than as meaningful contributors to the
design process. The Civic Nexus project is a three year
participatory design project that involves working with
community groups to increase their capacity to solve local
community problems through the use of leading edge
computing tools. Our view of participatory design is one in
which community members take control of the design process
in terms of both directing what should be done and
maintaining the technology infrastructure. In this paper, we
describe our process of participatory design with three
community groups and present associated challenges for
designers engaging in participatory design in community
computing context},
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pages = {1-10},
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timestamp = {2007-09-25T00:05:23.000+0200},
title = {Participatory design in community computing contexts: tales from the field},
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