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When Do Design Workshops Work (or Not)?

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Bettina NissenAuthors Info & Claims

DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 245 - 250

https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395856

Published: 06 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

This provocation invites reflection on the use of design workshops in research. We are concerned that often, design workshops don't work; at least, not as their facilitators might have intended, or as effectively as they could do. In this short paper we draw from our own experiences of organizing and attending design workshops, to observe common challenges in using design workshops as a research tool. Though critical, we intend this paper to serve as a point of reflection for running more purposeful workshops, and being able to better articulate the research and design developed through them.

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Index Terms

When Do Design Workshops Work (or Not)?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

July 2020

605 pages

ISBN:9781450379878

DOI:10.1145/3393914

General Chairs:
Ron Wakkary
Simon Fraser University, CA and Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Kristina Andersen
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Program Chairs:
Will Odom
Simon Fraser University, CA
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Audrey Desjardins
University of Washington, USA
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Marianne Graves Petersen
Aarhus University, DK

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Di Lodovico CColombo SRapp A(2023)Ambiguity for Social Self-tracking Practices: Exploring an Emerging Design SpaceCompanion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing10.1145/3584931.3606989(144-148)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3606989
Ramfelt KAndersson Gäre BAndersson APetersson C(2022)‘It's like a never‐ending diabetes youth camp’: Co‐designing a digital social network for young people with type 1 diabetesHealth Expectations10.1111/hex.1369026:2(662-669)Online publication date: 21-Dec-2022
https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13690
Ayobi AStawarz KKatz DMarshall PYamagata TSantos-Rodriguez RFlach PO'Kane A(2021)Co-Designing Personal Health? Multidisciplinary Benefits and Challenges in Informing Diabetes Self-Care TechnologiesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34796015:CSCW2(1-26)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3479601

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