Suhas Govind Joshi

• Colley, Jemina; Joshi, Suhas Govind; Biggelaar, Anne van den; Strömqvist, Sofia; Kirjavainen, Emma & Herstad, Jo [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). Where Participation Happens: Mapping Contemporary Sociotechnical Settings. I Havinen, Laura & Hägglund, Susanne (Red.), NordiCHI '26 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400727986. s. 1–5. doi: 10.1145/3821402.3830202. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Participatory Design (PD) increasingly takes place in complex, real-world settings where participation is shaped by institutional, social, material, spatial, and technological conditions. Drawing on perspectives of configuring participation, situated action, and place, this workshop approaches participatory settings as socially and materially constituted “places” and explores what becomes visible when participation is examined through this lens. Through collaborative reflection on participants’ own cases, the workshop invites researchers and practitioners to externalise and examine the conditions shaping participation, identify recurring tensions across diverse settings, and reflect on what remains hidden, difficult to articulate, configurable, or constrained in practice. By bringing together experiences from multiple domains, the workshop aims to support cross-context discussion of how participation is configured and negotiated across contemporary participatory design contexts.

• Njå, Ola; Nielsen, Arne Eirik; Holone, Harald; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Herstad, Jo (2026). Closing Time: A Theatre of Augmentation. I Havinen, Laura & Hägglund, Susanne (Red.), NordiCHI '26: Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400723735. s. 1–10. doi: 10.1145/3821402.3830169. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Biggelaar, Anne van den; Svanæs, Dag; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Dahl, Yngve (2026). Acquiring Facilitation Competence in Participatory Design: An Empirical Study of Challenges Novices Encounter. I Havinen, Laura & Hägglund, Susanne (Red.), NordiCHI '26: Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400723735. s. 1–18. doi: 10.1145/3829807.3829896. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bratteteig, Tone; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Maartmann-Moe, Harald (2026). Participatory Design for everyday autonomy in digitalized environments. I Havinen, Laura & Hägglund, Susanne (Red.), NordiCHI '26: Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400723735. s. 1–16. doi: 10.1145/3829807.3829897. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In today's digitalized societies, many everyday activities are supported by digital technologies, forcing everybody to become technology users. Involuntary non-users of such normalized digital technologies experience being disabled and excluded from activities and social arenas that require use of digital technologies that they are unable to use. In this paper, we argue that our understanding of non-use in the digitalized society needs to be widened with discussions about forced use, as this is a basis for making non-use problematic. Building on Participatory Design (PD), our second aim is to show how and why PD is an effective approach to designing usable and useful technical solutions for and with future users, enabling them to avoid involuntary non-use. PD widens the focus of the design process to include the use practices that the future solution will be part of and engages future users in designing their own technological future. The paper reports on seven of our own PD projects to show that PD can yield alternative technical solutions aligned with the logic of users’ activities and appropriate to their capabilities. PD aims at the design of technologies that enhance its users’ autonomy, and our research shows that the design of the interaction – the user interface and interaction mechanisms – is key for enabling use and avoiding involuntary non-use.

• Colley, Jemina; Niess, Jasmin & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2026). Was It Worth It? Retrospective Meaning-Making in Co-Design. I Havinen, Laura & Hägglund, Susanne (Red.), NordiCHI '26: Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400723735. s. 1–15. doi: 10.1145/3829807.3829838. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Stigberg, Susanne Koch; Carcani, Klaudia; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2026). Participatory Design Meets Artificial Intelligence. Co-Imagining Mutual Learning of AI Technologies and Designing with AI Tools. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s). ISSN 1826-9745. s. 5–14. doi: 10.55612/s-5002-068-001psi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This Special Issue (N. 68) emerged as a step toward broadening the discussion about the relationship between Participatory Design (PD) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The original PD projects were motivated by the introduction of computer technologies into industrial workplaces, where they threatened to impoverish or take over jobs. Just like computers were a threat to work and workers in the 1970s and 80s, AI is seen as a threat to workers—and societies—today. Building on a workshop held at NordiCHI 2024 [1], we wanted to invite a wider community of researchers and practitioners to critically reflect on how PD can question, shape, and reimagine AI technologies and practices. The notion of AI was used for the first time in 1955 referring to a machine that can simulate human intelligence [2]. Webster [3] argues that current AI systems that are based on Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can “be said to fulfill the original 1955 definition of AI for the first time” (p. 8). Today, AI systems are widespread and deployed rapidly across domains of considerable social significance— in healthcare, education, employment, criminal justice, and many others—without appropriate safeguards or accountability structures in place [4,5]. AI can replace human performance of tasks and “cooperate” with humans [6]. Similar to the expert systems of the second wave of AI [3], the current third wave of AI advocates AI that improves human capabilities rather than replacing them. The initiative for Human-Centered AI (HCAI) argues that AI systems should be explainable, comprehensible, useful and usable [7]. To achieve this Shneiderman [8] argues that user-centered and participatory methods engaging stakeholders in design is needed. A study of research on HCAI by Capel and Brereton [9] found that almost half the research papers could be categorized as human-centered approaches to design of AI, but very few of these were based on PD [10]. This Special Issue aims to change this.

• Culén, Alma Leora; Niess, Jasmin; Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de; Caspersen, Aki Axel; Jarsve, Tora & Joshi, Suhas Govind [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). The Misalignment of Technology, Democracy, and Design: A Scoping Review. I Yen, Chingchiuan; Lee, Jung-joo; Do, Ellen Yi Luen; Zheng, Clement; Yoo, Daisy & Tang, Tony (Red.), DIS '26: Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400725630. s. 2595–2612. doi: 10.1145/3800645.3813042. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This scoping review examines the past decade of research at the intersection of democracy, technology and design. Analysing 170 articles across Scopus, the ACM Digital Library, and the DRS Digital Library, we investigate how this research relates to democracy and how democratic values are conceptualised and enacted through interactive systems. We identify four dominant orientations: technology as democratic repair, as risk, as co-constitutive of democratic practices, and as embedded in everyday collective action and lived practices. Across these, we reveal a persistent misalignment: while democratic values are frequently invoked, much of the work reduces democracy to technical or procedural problems, prioritising optimisation over power, relationality, and lived practice. As a result, key dimensions such as collective agency, structural inequalities, and infrastructural conditions remain under-addressed, offering novel opportunities for HCI research. We argue that democratic technology design should advance better alignment fostering responsibility, participation, equity, and transparency in sociotechnical systems.

• Biggelaar, Anne van den; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Dahl, Yngve (2026). Conceptual lenses for understanding facilitation in Participatory Design. CoDesign - International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. ISSN 1571-0882. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2026.2648668. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind; Tolloczko, Christopher Hagen; Wenaas, Snorre; Holm, Ola Juul & Langved, Martin Lorentz Fagersand (2024). Investigating How Generative AI Affects Decision-Making in Participatory Design: Shifting the space to make design choices. I Waern, Annika; Skov, Mikael B.; Vidal, Laia Turmo & Schneiders, Eike (Red.), NordiCHI '24: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400709661. s. 1–14. doi: 10.1145/3679318.3685384. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Stigberg, Susanne Koch; Carcani, Klaudia; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2024). Participatory Design meets Artificial Intelligence: Co-imagining mutual learning of AI technologies and designing with AI tools, NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400709654. doi: 10.1145/3677045.3685471. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The workshop aims to explore relations between AI and PD: how AI can be used in PD as well as how PD can influence AI systems. In the workshop participants share experiences with AI in PD, presenting materials for discussion. The outcome of the workshop will be a set of principles and guidelines and a (common) paper, and we aim to establish a special interest research community for creative use of AI in PD.

• Maartmann-Moe, Harald & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2022). Prototyping and Prototype use in Participatory Design with older adults: A systematic literature review. I Vlachokyriakos, Vasilis (Red.), Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9781450393881. s. 169–182. doi: 10.1145/3536169.3537791. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Maartmann-Moe, Harald; Bråthen, Heidi; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2022). Design decision competence: Supporting user participation in design decisions. I Vlachokyriakos, Vasilis (Red.), Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design, Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9781450393881. s. 196–202. doi: 10.1145/3537797.3537874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Dæhlen, Åsmund & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2019). Immersion as a Strategy to Facilitate Participatory Design Involving People With Intellectual Disabilities and Caretakers as Proxies. I Kokil, Uttam & Ota, Tomoko (Red.), ACHI 2019, The Twelfth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). ISSN 9781612086866. s. 15–24. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper reports from the early phase of a Participatory Design (PD) process where the goal is to design technology that involves people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their caretakers as participants. The background of the study is a long-term collaboration with a local activity center for people with ID and 56 participants from this empirical context participated in this study. The presented methodological approach emphasizes immersion as a means of gaining access to and learning about the context to help identify crucial considerations for the facilitation of later PD activities. The paper presents two analyses of contextual data to reflect on how immersion as a strategy provides important insight into contextual considerations that can help shape future PD activities. Three learning outcomes are presented and discussed: involving users with ID and their caretakers as proxies, organizing long-term commitment, and lastly building on already-established forms of mutual learning.

• Dæhlen, Åsmund & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2019). Enabling People With Intellectual Disabilities to Participate in Design An Immersive Strategy to Facilitate Long-term Participatory Design Using Social Workers as Proxies. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems. 12(3-4), s. 229–245. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Brastad, Live Årmot (2019). Comparing Three Input Devices For Sketching Assignments In E-exams In Computer Science. I Nunes, Miguel Baptista & Isaías, Pedro (Red.), Proceedings of the International Conference e-Learning 2019. IADIS Press. ISSN 9789898533883. s. 105–115. doi: 10.33965/el2019_201909f014. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Velden, Maja van der; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Designed for Learning: Experiences with the intensive course format in informatics. NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN 1892-0748. 26(1). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Bachelor and Master courses at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo are semester- long courses. Students and teaching staff meet two to four hours every week for lectures and group work. This was also the case in Design, Use, Interaction, a two-year master programme. In 2013 it became possible to teach intensive courses in this Master programme, creating an opportunity to implement three intensive courses successively in one semester. This resulted in the development of two intensive courses and the intensification of another course, which was normally taught as a semester-long course: Tangible Interaction Design, Advancements in Interaction Design, and Design, Technology & Society. Each course was five weeks long. In a presentation of each of the three courses, we will focus on the opportunities and challenges in teaching an intensive course. The main question we will address is: What are the characteristics of a successful intensive course? Based on a literature review, we have identified the following attributes that play a central role in the success of an intensive course: course methodology, teaching methods, exam format, and lecturer-student(s) interactions. We will present our experiences in teaching intensive courses along these four attributes. Our findings and discussion centre around our constructivist learning methodology, implemented through a wide variety of methods enabling creativity, hands-on experiences, theory-practice nexus, and critical reflexivity; new and adapted exam formats; and constructive lecturer-student interactions. While the experiences from the three courses are different, we were able to extract three common attributes for success: i) create a ‘learning home’ for the students, which provides them with a common understanding of the course methodology and enables them to identify their learning experiences; ii) actively work with the theory-practice nexus, using the theoretical literature as a lens to understand practice and practice to construct new knowledge; iii) cultivate constructive lecturer-student and student-student interactions both on an individual, group, and class level.

• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2018). Confronting Common Assumptions About the Psychomotor Abilities of Older Adults Interacting with Touchscreens. I Zhou, Jia & Salvendy, Gavriel (Red.), Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Acceptance, Communication and Participation. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783319920337. s. 261–278. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92034-4_20. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2018). Using embodied experiences to re-design enabling technologies. Journal of Enabling Technologies (JET). ISSN 2398-6263. doi: 10.1108/JET-06-2018-0028. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Valen, Jørgen (2018). Co-exploring Interaction Opportunities for Enabling Technologies for People with Rheumatic Disorder. I Miesenberger, Klaus & Kouroupetroglou, Georgios (Red.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783319942766. s. 415–423. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94277-3_65. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents a case of co-design for people with rheumatic disorder to support the argument of opening up the design space to include interaction opportunities found in the physical world. The position argued for is that opening up the design space beyond common screen-based interfaces may contribute to the design of enabling technologies for people with rheumatic disorders by acknowledging their varying capabilities during both design and use. The presented results consist of one thematic analysis of home interviews and group discussions as well as one statistical analysis of the results from a formative evaluation of six conceptual prototypes developed along with the participants. The paper uses the combination of the thematic analysis, the six conceptual prototypes, and formative evaluation of performance scores and preference ratings to demonstrate how our co-design process involving users with rheumatic disorder in all phases allowed participants to discover both limitations and opportunities as they explored and co-designed alternative concepts.

• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2016). Designing for prolonged mastery. On involving old people in participatory design. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). ISSN 0905-0167. 28(1), s. 3–36. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2016). Designing for Capacities Rather Than Disabilities. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems. 9(3-4), s. 565–578. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2016). Re-establishing Interaction Through Design of Alternative Interfaces. I Hettinga, Marike; Culén, Alma Leora; Gemert-Pijnen, Lisette Van; Ekeland, Anne G.; Bergmo, Trine Strand; Perego, Paolo; Caon, Maurizio; Degano, Cristiana; Giacomelli, Piero & Dyb, Kari (Red.), eTELEMED 2016, The Eighth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine and Social Medicine. International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). ISSN 9781612084701. s. 220–229. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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), s. 74–89. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. s. 52–63. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39943-0_6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). The Role of Materials in Design of Familiar and Contextual Assistive Technologies. I Blashki, Katherine & Xiao, Yingcai (Red.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2016. IADIS Press. ISSN 9789898533524. s. 74–89. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Woll, Anita (2015). A Collaborative Change Experiment: Post-experiment evaluation of Home Telecare For Elderly Home Dwellers, 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015) and the Affiliated Conferences. AHFE. ISSN 9781495160424. s. 82–89. doi: 10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.111. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents results from the final phases of a three-year collaborative change experiment that introduces telecare as a means for delivery of home care services to elderly home dwellers. During the five phases of the experiment, we have included a total of 78 participants in a new housing for local care homes in Oslo. Our goal has been to gather enough empirical knowledge to inform future design of telecare. We present and thematically analyze the results from a final post-experimental workshop and case study, and we use this analysis to discuss the overall findings of our research. Our main findings cover different aspects of the design of telecare, including organizational, technical and health aspect.

• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2015). Designing for Experienced Simplicity. Why Analytic and Imagined Simplicity Fail in Design of Assistive Technology. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems. 8(3-4), s. 324–338. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Iversen, Thomas René & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2015). Exploring spatial interaction in assistive technology through prototyping, 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015) and the Affiliated Conferences. AHFE. ISSN 9781495160424. s. 158–165. doi: 10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.121. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Källstrøm, Mathias Peder; Berdal, Sondre Johannessen & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2015). Designing an Indoor Navigation System for Elderly People’s Capabilities. I Zhou, Jia & Salvendy, Gavriel (Red.), Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Everyday Life. Springer. ISSN 9783319209128. s. 435–445. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20913-5_40. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2015). When Simple Technologies Make Life Difficult. I Miller, Leslie & Culén, Alma Leora (Red.), ACHI 2015, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. ThinkMind. ISSN 9781612083827. s. 168–177. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2015). Assembling fragments into continuous design: On participatory design with old people. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. ISSN 1865-1348. 223, s. 13–29. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-21783-3_2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rem, Aleksander & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2015). Implications for design of personal mobility devices with balance-based natural user interfaces. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 9170, s. 363–375. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20916-6_34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Woll, Anita (2015). A collaborative change experiment: Diagnostic evaluation of telecare for elderly home dwellers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 9185, s. 423–434. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-21070-4_42. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Woll, Anita (2014). A collaborative change experiment: telecare as a means for delivery of home care services. I Aaron, Marcus (Red.), Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part III. Springer. ISSN 9783319076348. s. 141–151. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_15. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2014). Emerging ethical considerations from the perspectives of the elderly, Ninth International Conference on Culture, Technology, and Communication 2014. Culture Technology Communication. ISSN 9788299977005. s. 186–203. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The introduction of assistive technology for elderly no longer able to live independently has brought along a set of new ethical issues that deserves attention. Previous studies on similar topics mostly focus on certain groups of elderly or specific ethical issues rather than addressing ethical issues that apply to the majority of elderly regardless of their background. This paper reports from four methods of data gathering where we let elderly using assistive technology voice their own ethical considerations without having to speak within an ethical framework or only limited to one or few ethical issues. The data is gathered through four different methods at a local care home in Oslo over a period of 15 months. Rooted in a thematic analysis we present four identified problem areas, and we summarize and discuss our findings with regards to how we believe these issues should be dealt with in the future.

• Culén, Alma; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Abdelhakeem, Atif (2013). HCID: Who is an interaction designer? I Reitan, Janne Beate; Lloyd, Peter; Bohemia, Erik; Nielsen, Liv Merete; Digranes, Ingvild & Lutnæs, Eva (Red.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers 14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway. ABM-media AS. ISSN 9788293298007. s. 1924–1937. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The development of technology with all its ubiquity and pervasiveness provides new opportunities and new challenges for the interaction design practitioners, both those coming from the design tradition and computer science tradition. An increased level of problem solving and creative thinking is needed when designing for interactions with new technology. In order to develop the skills and methods for dealing with increased complexity and connectedness of technology, human computer interaction design (HCID) education needs to embrace to a larger extent design practices and design thinking. This paper aims to answer two main questions: 1) why is it necessary to teach HCID students design thinking skills and 2) how to actually implement the changes in HCID curriculum. The second question is answered based on our experience and the solution we adopted. Subsequently, we discuss the success of our approach. Pages 1924-1937, Vol 4, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers 14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway. Copyright © 2013 The authors.

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• Maartmann-Moe, Harald; Bråthen, Heidi; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2022). Design decision competence: Supporting user participation in design decisions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Maartmann-Moe, Harald & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2022). Prototyping and Prototype use in Participatory Design with older adults: A systematic literature review. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2016). Re-establishing Interaction Through Design of Alternative Interfaces. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). Lowering the Threshold: Reconnecting Elderly Users with Assistive Technology Through Tangible Interfaces. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bråthen, Heidi (2016). The Role of Materials in Design of Familiar and Contextual Assistive Technologies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Bratteteig, Tone (2015). Assembling fragments into continuous design. On participatory design with old people. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Woll, Anita (2015). A Collaborative Change Experiment: Post-experiment evaluation of Home Telecare For Elderly Home Dwellers. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind & Rem, Aleksander (2015). Implications for Design of Personal Mobility Devices with Balance-Based Natural User Interfaces. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bratteteig, Tone & Joshi, Suhas Govind (2014). Følgeforskning på Kampen Omsorg+. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Joshi, Suhas Govind (2017). Designing for Capabilities: A Phenomenological Approach to the Design of Enabling Technologies for Older Adults. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Technology is playing an increasingly important role in society's response to the emerging need of caretaking of the oldest citizens. This dissertation presents a design approach that focuses on capabilities rather than disabilities as the foundation for the design of enabling technologies for older adults. To answer the overarching research question of how we can design for capabilities, this dissertation addresses three research questions that concerns construction of a theoretical design framework, the operationalization of the framework by informing a tailored methodology, and reflection of design outcomes to generate knowledge that can inform back to theory. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the lived body has been used to construct a design framework with theoretical concepts, design considerations, and design opportunities that frame an understanding of capabilities as the basis for design. This framework has informed the adaptation of a phenomenological Participatory Design (PD) methodology which has then been continuously adjusted to support the practical limitations of engaging older adults in co-design activities. The methodology has guided the facilitation of 14 different research explorations involving 542 participants over four years. The design outcomes from these research explorations have been used as analytic tools to generate knowledge through reflection that has contributed to the revision of the theoretically informed design framework. The design outcomes have also been used to reflect on the phenomenological PD process. This dissertation answers the overarching research questions by making three contributions: a phenomenological design framework that emphasizes designing for capabilities revised by knowledge generated through design; a tailored phenomenological PD process with supportive analyses of preconditions, participation, and decision-making; and presentation of two sets of design artifacts and the knowledge they have generated. The design approach suggested has been followed from conception of theory to long-term use of design outcomes in realistic settings to fully utilize the reciprocal interplay between theory and design. Results from the testing of use after design in real environments suggest that this design approach can open up new opportunities to design long-lasting relationships between people and the digital artifacts they use in their everyday life by designing for capabilities rather than disabilities.

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