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Empathy has been acknowledged as a necessary addition to the project manager’s toolkit, yet there is little in the literature on how this may be used in practice. There is no one agreed definition of empathy. However, it is acknowledged that it is ...

One important class of applications entails a robot scrutinizing, monitoring, or recording the evolution of an uncertain time-extended process. This sort of situation leads to an interesting family of active perception problems that can be cast as ...

As participants in participatory process, PD academics report on the practices and outcomes of their work and thereby shape what is known of individual projects and the wider field of participatory design. At present, there is a dominant form for this ...

We describe our experience of working with blind and visually impaired people to create interactive art objects that are personal to them, through a participatory making process using electronic textiles (e-textiles) and hands-on crafting techniques. ...

Data comics for data-driven storytelling are inspired by the visual language of comics and aim to communicate insights in data through visualizations. While comics are widely known, few examples of data comics exist and there has not been any structured ...

"The Speaking Celt" app is an Augmented Reality companion app for museum visitors to the Keltenmuseum Hallein (Museum of Celtic Heritage) in Hallein, Pflegerplatz 5, Salzburg, Austria. Three Avatars guide the visitors through the museum. The app has ...

This workshop asks participatory designers and researchers to consider how they write about their work and what role there is for novel approaches to expression, forms drawn from other disciplines, and open and playful texts. As we bring social science ...

A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a vital role in various applications associated with sustainable development and clean energy. In these applications, the GIS provides a capability to upload on-site geographical information collected by ...

This paper discusses the ongoing development of an engaging system that will allow museum visitors to understand their emotional connections to artefacts. Through structured interviews with museum visitors and qualitative analysis, insight is gained as ...

In this paper we introduce StoryTrek, a locative hypernarrative system developed to generate stories based on a reader's location and specific movements in the real world. This creates, for readers, an interplay between navigation, narrative, and agency,...

Educational digital libraries have become an effective source of sharing information and dissemination of knowledge. Like paintings, personal stories containing pictures, music, and text will exist for a long time to come and will be enjoyed long after ...

Technological hubris occurs when attempts are made to develop technological solutions for marginalized groups. Despite being impoverished, these groups constitute the bulk of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) users. Developers all too often ...