The term 'participation' is traditionally used in HCI to describe the involvement of users and stakeholders design processes, with a pretext distributing control participants shape their technological future. In this paper we ask whether these values can hold up practice, particularly as participation takes on new meanings incorporates perspectives. We argue that much research leans towards configuring participation. exploring claim explore three questions consider important for...

Much of the academic and commercial work which seeks to innovate around technology has been dismissed as "solutionist" because it solves problems that don't exist or ignores complexity personal, political environmental issues. This paper traces "solutionism" critique its origins in city planning highlights original concern with imaging representation design process. It is increasingly cheap easy create compelling seductive images concept designs, sell solutions presume problems. We consider...

In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design sustainability, illustrating diversity approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor

This paper explores how technology could support the re-building of lives after domestic violence. We worked in context a women's centre where women are accessing leaving abusive relationships. The contributes feminist participatory arts action research approach to studying photo-sharing practices and helps frame an understanding ongoing tensions construction self with others that experience. argue affirmation new bonds, control sharing process 'moving on', supporting discursive negotiations...

Experience Centered Design (ECD) implores us to develop empathic relationships and understanding of participants, actively work with our senses emotions within the design process. However, theories experience-centered do little account for emotion undertaken by researchers when doing this. As a consequence, how researcher's are experienced, navigated used as part an ECD process rarely published. So, while is clearly tool that we use, don't share one another how, why it gets used. This has...

This paper responds to sustainable HCI's call design long-term participatory projects with grassroots communities counter the local effects of climate change and support more viable practices. We contribute a methodological approach speculative as series interrelated experiments in living, working symbiosis food-growing community moving towards collective resilience food sovereignty. As an example sustainability research within HCI, has predominantly focused on collaborative acts growing...

We propose a collective participatory speculative urban walk exploring "more-than-human" perspectives for smart cities. The will be curated selection of outcomes from PDC workshop interrogating how approaches and their resultant ethical, legal, methodological concerns can shape design practices toward cohabitation. Our aim with the Situated Action is to use as an embodied approach push forward cultural change in agenda sustainable cities, informatics IoT. draw specificity infrastructures...

While HCI research has often addressed the needs of older adults, they are framed as being sceptical digital technologies. We argue that while many adults circumspect users technology, bring rich and critical perspectives on role technology in society grounded lived experiences across their life courses. report 20 story interviews conducted with retirees over age 60. Our analysis shows how courses significantly undermined participants' sense competency, independence, resilience, agency...

This paper argues that trust cannot be taken for granted in long-term participatory research and promotes greater consideration to conceptualizing the trusting process as fluid fragile. awareness by researchers can reveal them how passing of time shapes reshapes nature relationships their constant negotiation re-negotiation. The draws together literature from different disciplines on themes trust, temporality outcomes interviews workshops undertaken Trust Map project focus two key moments...

Ubiquitous technology, coupled with a surge in empirical research on people that engages multiple challenges their lives, is increasingly revealing the potential for HCI to enrich lives of vulnerable people. Designing vulnerabilities requires an approach participation sensitive risks possible stigmatization and awareness participant involvement. This workshop will bring together researchers practitioners explore critical issues surrounding designing individuals. We aim provoke discussion...

Trust is an essential if often implicit aspect of co-design particularly when working in community-based, political and sensitive settings. Current literature, however, remains fairly limited focusing on interactions between people as primary agents trust. Drawing research conducted with a poverty alleviation charity based the UK, we illustrate how trust distrust can also be mediated through material resources used process. The paper highlights significance materials negotiating...

The joint study of computer security, privacy and human-computer interaction (HCI) over the last two decades has shaped a research agenda focused upon usable & security. However, in HCI more generally there long been an awareness need to understand design for user experience, recognition complex multi-faceted role that technology now plays our lives. In this paper we add growing discussion by introducing notion experience-centered We argue order engage users around issues related experiences...

The turn to participation in smart cities was intended increase the involvement of diverse, often marginalised, citizens design and use networked sensing technologies. However, ideals activism, citizen engagement democratisation through co-design technologies services have been largely based on an understanding urban space as separate from nature, for human inhabitants alone. In current conditions climate change, pollution, loss biodiversity, a human-centred perspective is increasingly...

The role of empathy has come to prominence in HCI as the community increasingly engages with issues medical, health and emotionally charged contexts. In such settings empathizing others is crucial understanding experience living specific conditions, or being sensitive concerns emotions potentially vulnerable participants. Researchers these areas become implicated designing new tools technologies that support empathic relations. This workshop therefore aims build an interdisciplinary...

With the increased relevance of digital technologies in civil life comes challenge how to design research for citizen engagement. Drawing from three reflexive case studies presenting socially engaged arts (SEA) projects, we describe how, as artists, collaborators and researchers, inclusive community-based projects. We argue that our roles required us be both flexible adopt critical openness practices collaborative social facilitation. conclude with insights inform enable nurturing engagement...

Participation is of high relevance to the CHI Design community. Participatory work has been performed with very different intentions: democratize design process; better inform new systems; engage public in construction their own futures; or simply appease funding commitments. Whilst this increased attention lead a large amount methodological innovation, little effort spent reflecting on why various participatory approaches should, should not be, used and how we can assess impacts process...

We present our work-in-progress designing technologies to foster social connection with isolated immigrant women in the UK. report preliminary studies using digital storytelling and portrait methods participants at a Black, Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) centre supporting who have experiences of domestic violence. While these provided valuable insights, contexts where feel vulnerable cultural diversity is norm, HCI's conventional assumptions about probe use cannot be taken for granted....

This article explores the experiences of six people with intellectual disabilities in context a self-advocacy group, identifying benefits and difficulties being part group.Six adults were interviewed about their experiences. Each individual took two group interviews. The transcripts analysed using thematic analysis.Analysis revealed four themes, namely, self-esteem, self-determination empowerment.Being is central to experience self-development empowerment. Responses allow exploration...

Recent HCI scholarship has begun to incorporate the concept of care as an alternative design lens, moving beyond health or social consider a fundamental relational quality life. This one-day workshop brings together researchers find shared understanding ways in which interpersonal and interdependence could be supported through technology community contexts. The goal is raise issues increase sensitivity towards care, with ultimate aim impacting practices-including how one might interactions...

It is well documented that people living with mental health conditions are more likely to experience financial difficulties. When explaining this association, emphasis has often been placed on capability, i.e. the capacity of those poor manage their money. This paper challenges such capability-based explanations by reporting a diary study and interviews 14 who self-identify as condition. We focused experiences technology use, explored role played in strategies minimise impact economic...

We explore how digital technology might support the documentation of experiences participatory arts engagement. During a fourteen session workshop series, we worked with artists, project managers, workers and participants to integration media capture presentation technologies into workshops, implications that this would have for practices key stakeholders involved. contribute insight social practical challenges faced when using create arts. Our findings highlight importance situating...

This article explores an innovative model of adult education within museums developed from a Black feminist approach. BAM! Sistahood! is community-led project with regional heritage organisations, universities and women’s centres in the UK, that offers holistic approach to development. The ethos challenge perpetuation existing Eurocentric models historical exclusion experienced by black, Asian, minority ethnic refugee (BAMER) women when accessing archives. We argue be transformative,...