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Foresight and forecasts: participation in a welfare technology innovation project

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PDC '10: Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference

Pages 255 - 258

https://doi.org/10.1145/1900441.1900496

Published: 29 November 2010 Publication History

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In predicting areas of growth, public innovation projects may rely on optimistic visions of technology still in development as a way of ensuring novelty for funding. This paper explores what happens when forecasts of robotic technology meets the practice of sterile supply in a preliminary stage of an ongoing project. We examine the nature of participation in design on three levels: in the sterilization ward, this particular project and society in general. From our case, we suggest that while innovation projects proceeding from a certain technological perspective can succeed at building excitement, the most sustainable innovation stems from the dialogical interaction between practitioner foresight and societal forecasting, requiring continued development of participatory design as it moves into new contexts.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3210604.3210624

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PDC '10: Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference

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DOI:10.1145/1900441

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University of Oslo, Norway
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Frennert SBaudin K(2019)The concept of welfare technology in Swedish municipal eldercareDisability and Rehabilitation10.1080/09638288.2019.166103543:9(1220-1227)Online publication date: 10-Sep-2019
https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1661035
Poderi GDittrich Y(2018)Participatory design and sustainabilityProceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 210.1145/3210604.3210624(1-5)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3210604.3210624

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