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Participatory Design with On-line Focus Groups and Normative Systems

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Participatory design is a generally accepted practice for the construction of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems. The involvement of experts and users in the conception and design of assistive solutions can lead to better systems. A common technique to involve users is called focus-group, which is mainly a moderated group meeting. Despite its benefits, it cannot be neglected the implicit cost of preparing and performing such meetings, and ensuring, later on, that the resulting assistive solution meets the requirements. A disruptive way to change this situation is the application of ICT technologies. This work contributes with a proposal for partial automation of focus-group techniques that support on-line evaluation of assistive solutions during the conception stage. Also, the paper addresses the formalization of the evaluation feedback through the use of normative systems.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support from the project “Collaborative Ambient Assisted Living Design (ColoSAAL)” (TIN2014-57028-R) funded by Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness; and MOSI-AGIL-CM (S2013/ICE-3019) co-funded by the Region of Madrid Government, EU Structural Funds FSE, and FEDER.

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  1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Marlon Cárdenas, Noelia García Castillo, Jorge Gómez-Sanz & Juan Pavón

  2. Conscious Management Institute (CMI), Madrid, Spain

    Noelia García Castillo

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Cárdenas, M., Castillo, N.G., Gómez-Sanz, J., Pavón, J. (2018). Participatory Design with On-line Focus Groups and Normative Systems. In: Herrera, F., et al. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. CAEPIA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11160. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00374-6_7

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