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Author Cortés-Rico, L., ; Piedrahita-Solórzano, G.,
Title Participatory Design in Practice. The Case of an Embroidered Technology.
Reference
Cortés-Rico L., Piedrahita-Solórzano G. (2015) Participatory Design in Practice. The Case of an Embroidered Technology. In: Abascal J., Barbosa S., Fetter M., Gross T., Palanque P., Winckler M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015. INTERACT 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9298. Springer, Cham.

Link to article https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22698-9_35
Abstract This paper presents a project for the social development of ICTs, which used a participatory design approach and sought to have a high social impact on a community of craftswomen (embroiderers from Cartago, Colombia). Participating in this project implied active dialogue with the community to recognize the knowledge of each participant and achieve culturally relevant representations materialized in technological artifacts. We posit dialogue, representation and recognition as key elements for developing successful participatory design. In practice, this was achieved through an iterative, incremental and open-ended methodology, whose main feature was engagement by doing. This process of design allowed engineers to recognize the craftswomen’s traditional knowledge and allowed craftswomen to be less afraid of technology. The main resultant artifact was a tangible user interface that facilitates dialogue between fashion designers and embroiderers in the process of designing new embroidery patterns. This and other artifacts that emerged from the activities and dialogues, the level of engagement of the participants, and the convergence points discovered between embroidery and technology, lead us to conclude that the process presented here can be replicated with other craft communities, to reinforce these communities and assist them in generating innovation in their processes and products.


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It means that the greater the immersion in the project, the easier it is for ideas to become culturally relevant artifacts. .
Actively involving communities facilitates their empowerment, their appropriation of designed artifacts and also makes possible the local development of new sustainable social technology. .
These results may encourage the replication of the presented process with other craft communities, as a way of bringing innovation into their own processes and products..
Finally, aiming for open-ended milestones considers that results are not just finished artifacts but an empowerment of the community, which eases the appropriation of the designed technologies and the local development of new sustainable social technology. .
In addition, these encounters allowed the co-creation of innovative and culturally representative artifacts. .