Heidi Bråthen

• Maartmann-Moe, Harald; Bråthen, Heidi; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2022). Design decision competence: Supporting user participation in design decisions. In Vlachokyriakos, Vasilis (Eds.), Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9781450393881. p. 196–202. doi: 10.1145/3537797.3537874. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The paper suggests the notion of design decision competence to describe the competence that users need to develop in order to participate in design decisions in Participatory Design (PD). We present two PD projects with older adults where they participated actively in making design decisions and we describe the competence they developed as a basis for these design decisions. We argue that experiences with materials and prototypes that demonstrate technical possibilities are important for developing such competence. We conclude by proposing a refined notion of design decision competence which enables real participation in design decisions.

• Bråthen, Heidi; Maartmann-Moe, Harald & Schulz, Trenton Wade (2019). The Role of Physical Prototyping in Participatory Design with Older Adults. In Kokil, Uttam & Ota, Tomoko (Ed.), ACHI 2019, The Twelfth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). ISSN 9781612086866. p. 141–146. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How can older adults actively participate in the design processes of assistive robots designed for their homes? We have organized workshops with a group of older adults who worked actively with materials and physical prototyping to design a fetch robot for the home. We present the basics of the workshop materials, how the workshop was performed, and findings on the role of physical prototyping from the workshops.

• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). Supporting new interactions with past experiences anchored in materials. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information System. 11(2), p. 74–89. Full text in Research Archive
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). Lowering the Threshold: Reconnecting Elderly Users with Assistive Technology Through Tangible Interfaces, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Aging. Springer. ISSN 9783319399423. p. 52–63. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39943-0_6. Full text in Research Archive
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). The Role of Materials in Design of Familiar and Contextual Assistive Technologies. In Blashki, Katherine & Xiao, Yingcai (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2016. IADIS Press. ISSN 9789898533524. p. 74–89. Full text in Research Archive

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• Maartmann-Moe, Harald; Bråthen, Heidi; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2022). Design decision competence: Supporting user participation in design decisions. Full text in Research Archive
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). Lowering the Threshold: Reconnecting Elderly Users with Assistive Technology Through Tangible Interfaces. Full text in Research Archive
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). The Role of Materials in Design of Familiar and Contextual Assistive Technologies. Full text in Research Archive

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