Abstract
Public design can be understood as a perspective that follows democratic approaches to design, addresses collective conditions, and supports the formation of publics. In this paper, we present our efforts to engage with a public design perspective in a case study addressing the topic of dyslexia. The paper contributes to the understanding of the process of articulation of matters of concern in public design. In addition, the results can be considered as opportunities for design that can serve as inspiration for other projects addressing the topic of dyslexia.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Andersen LB, Danholt P, Halskov K, Hansen NB, Lauritsen P (2015) Participation as a matter of concern in participatory design. CoDesign 11(3–4):250–261
Björgvinsson E, Ehn P, Hillgren PA (2010) Participatory design and democratizing innovation. In Proceedings of the 11th Biennial participatory design conference. ACM, pp 41–50
Braun V, Clarke V (2006) Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qual Res Psychol 3(2):77–101
Brunswick N (2012) Supporting dyslexic adults in higher education and the workplace. Wiley, London
Dewey J, Rogers ML (2012) The public and its problems: an essay in political inquiry. Penn State Press, Pennsylvania
DiSalvo C, Lukens J, Lodato T, Jenkins T, Kim T (2014) Making public things: how HCI design can express matters of concern. In: Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems. ACM, pp 2397–2406
Elliott JG, Grigorenko EL (2014) The dyslexia debate, vol 14. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Greenfield A (2013) Against the smart city
Khakhar J, Madhvanath S (2010) Jollymate: assistive technology for young children with dyslexia. In: Frontiers in handwriting recognition (ICFHR), 2010 international conference on IEEE, pp 576–580
Kvale S (2008) Doing interviews. Sage, London
Latour B (2004) Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Crit Inq 30(2):225–248
Le Dantec CA, DiSalvo C (2013) Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design. Soc Stud Sci 43(2):241–264
Neustaedter C, Sengers P (2012) Autobiographical design in HCI research: designing and learning through use-it-yourself. In: Proceedings of the designing interactive systems conference. ACM, pp 514–523
Pandey S, Srivastava S (2011) Tiblo: a tangible learning aid for children with dyslexia. In: Procedings of the second conference on creativity and innovation in design. ACM, pp 211–220
Preece J (2000) Online communities: designing usability and supporting socialbilty. Wiley, Chichester
Schön DA (1983) The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action, vol 5126. Basic books, New York
Simonsen J, Robertson T (eds) (2012) Routledge international handbook of participatory design. Routledge, New York
Telier A, Binder T, De Michelis G, Ehn P, Jacucci G, Wagner I (2011) Design things. The MIT Press, Cambridge
Tittarelli M, Marti P, Peppoloni D (2014) Rapping dyslexia: learning rhythm, rhyme and flow in dyslexic children. In: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic conference on human-computer interaction: fun, fast, foundational. ACM, October, pp 865–870
Van Someren MW, Barnard YF, Sandberg JA (1994) The think aloud method: a practical guide to modelling cognitive processes, vol 2. Academic, London
Wood LE (1997) User interface design: bridging the gap from user requirements to design. CRC Press, Boca Raton
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Maurizio Teli for his comments and participation in the research and analysis. The analysis that has brought to this paper has been possible thanks to the funding granted by the Ministero dell’Istruzione, Universita’ e Ricerca through the project “Citta’ Educante”, project code CTN01_00034_393801.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Menéndez-Blanco, M., De Angeli, A. (2016). “Matters of Concern” as Design Opportunities. In: De Angeli, A., Bannon, L., Marti, P., Bordin, S. (eds) COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23-27 May 2016, Trento, Italy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_17
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_17
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-33463-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-33464-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)