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Program

09:00 - 09:30Welcome speech, workshop introduction and self-introduction of participants
09:30 - 10:30Session 1
09:30 - 09:40 Is More More or is Less More?
09:40 - 09:50 Using participation observation in end-user development research – a study of knowledge seeking/contribution in an end-user developer support community
09:50 - 10:00Short break
10:00 - 10:10 HCI Research in Group Recommenders for Lifestyle Change
10:10 - 10:20 Open Design and Medical Products
10:20 - 10:30 Learning from the Learners: MOOCs and Cultures of Participation
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30Session 2
11:00 - 11:10 A Trajectory from Tools to Sustainable Learning and Community Awareness
11:10 - 11:20 Towards "non-disposable" Software Architectures for Participation
11:20 - 11:30 Methods for Researching Cultures of Participation: The Role of Social Network Analysis and the Mixed Methods Approach
11:30 - 11:40Short break
11:40 - 11:50 Digital Cultural Heritage and Living Labs
11:50 - 12:00 Toward A Successful Culture of Participation in Emergency Management
12:00 - 12:10 Fostering Culture of Participation through Composition of Service-Based Interactive Spaces
12:10 - 12:20 Supporting User-Designers Collaboration in Open-Source Software Projects
12:20 - 12:30 Further discussion and presentation of the group activity
12:30 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 15:30Group activity
Throughout the presentation sessions, participants will be invited to take notes of ideas, comments and issues on post-it, which will be attached in the room during the coffee breaks and lunch time. During this one-hour and half discussion, participants will be divided in groups for discussing about the main topics emerged in the papers and the pre-workshops activity.
15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00Plenary discussion and proposals for future developments
Expected outcomes are a set of user requirements and conceptual design, which each group will present to the others. Final discussion will be based on an affinity analysis of the post-it notes and will be chaired by the organizers.
17:00 - 17:30Closing session

Post-Workshop activities

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for a special issue in a journal.

The mail goal of the workshop is the creation of a network of people belonging to academic world as well as to the industry and public administration to develop further interdisciplinary projects for increasing awareness and interest of the user-driven innovation and quality of life in the digital age through user engagement, multi-stakeholder collaboration and culture of participation. To this aim, the opportunity to submit proposals for European Projects will be discussed during the afternoon session of the workshop.