Framing and Facilitating Participatory Design for Greater Impact

  • Jessica Korte
  • , Marie Boden
  • , Sanjana Bhatnagar
  • , Aurora Constantin
  • , Jerry Fails
  • , Judith Good
  • , Gavin Sim
  • , Janet Read
  • , Eva Eriksson

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Abstract

Participatory design (PD) emerged in the 1970s, primarily in Scandinavia, as a response to traditional top-down design approaches [9]. Since then, it has been utilized in industry and research with various stakeholders, including both adults and children [8, 16]. However, in order to continue to mature as a research approach, participatory design must move past its history of individual projects situated in a specific context [17] to address “big issues” which have broader societal impact [1, 11]. Emerging approaches such as distributed PD (DPD) offer promising avenues for this shift, enabling larger teams with more diverse perspectives to tackle problems both synchronously and asynchronously [2]. Improving the comparability of PD research plans and output data would also enable PD work to make larger, stronger, more substantial claims, and consequently have greater impact [1, 11]. This workshop will address the following key question: How can we frame and facilitate (D)PD activities to achieve these greater impacts?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOZCHI 2025
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
EditorsJoel Fredericks, Soojeong Yoo, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Nadia Pantidi, Thuong Hoang, Marius Hoggenmueller, Glenda Caldwell, Benjamin Tag, Josh Andres, Hilary Davis, Marie Boden, Howe Zhu, Joel Harman, Jessica Rahman
Pages1016-1019
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9798400720161
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Nov 2025
Event37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, OZCHI 2025 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 29 Nov 20253 Dec 2025

Publication series

NameOZCHI 2025 - Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Conference

Conference37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, OZCHI 2025
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period29/11/253/12/25

Keywords

  • broad impact
  • facilitating research
  • framework
  • Participatory design

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