(New Title) Constructing Knowledge Art: An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations

I am pleased to announce the latest title in Morgan & Claypool's series on
Human-Centered Informatics:

 

Constructing Knowledge Art: An Experiential Perspective on Crafting
Participatory Representations
Al Selvin, Verizon Communications

Simon Buckingham Shum, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Paperback ISBN: 9781627052597, $55.00
eBook ISBN: 9781627052603
October 2014, 119 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00593ED1V01Y201408HCI023 

 

Abstract:

This book is about how people (we refer to them as practitioners) can help
guide participants in creating representations of issues or ideas, such as
collaborative diagrams, especially in the context of Participatory Design
(PD). At its best, such representations can reach a very high level of
expressiveness and usefulness, an ideal we refer to as Knowledge Art.
Achieving that level requires effective engagement, often aided by
facilitators or other practitioners. Most PD research focuses on tools and
methods, or on participant experience. The next source of advantage is to
better illuminate the role of practitioners-the people working with
participants, tools, and methods in service of a project's larger goals.
Just like participants, practitioners experience challenges, interactions,
and setbacks, and come up with creative ways to address them while
maintaining their stance of service to participants and stakeholders. Our
research interest is in understanding what moves and choices practitioners
make that either help or hinder participants' engagement with
representations. We present a theoretical framework that looks at these
choices from the experiential perspectives of narrative, aesthetics, ethics,
sensemaking and improvisation and apply it to five diverse case studies of
actual practice.

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