A Huge Thank You

The Changing Nature of Participation in Design: A practice-based study of social technologies in early design research

Penny Hagen
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computing Sciences
1st April 2011
Interaction Design and Human Practice Laboratory
School of Software, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney

I can not express how pleased I am to have finally submitted my PhD thesis for examination. There are so many friends, family members, colleagues, participants, clients, researchers, tweeps, acquaintances and strangers whose words, thoughts, support and understanding were critical in the development (and most importantly the completion) of the thesis. To all of you, thank you so much. It really is finished this time.

I’ll be posting a link to the full Pdf shortly. [Edit - here is the link to download the thesis] Please find the in brief version (abstract) below.

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Social Technologies, Participation & Design methods, #dtdrinks #sketchnotes

Sketchnotes by @bencrothers

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to present some aspects of my Phd research at this weeks Design Thinking Drinks in Sydney. Above is one of the  awesome sketchnotes that @bencrothers did of my talk, it also captures some of the questions and discussion.  I’ll put up the slides shortly, hopefully with notes. In the meantime, enjoy  @bencrothers ‘ take on it – sketchnoting is cool for lots of reasons, but as a presenter you get a real sense for what stood out which is fantastic, and how people interpreted what you are saying. I think all researchers should seek out some one like Ben to sketchnote their talks, – gives a completely different perspective on your #phd and research to a standard conference review – So big thanks @bencrothers ! Continue reading…

A collation of posts from the 11th Participatory Design Conference

The full week of fabulous workshops, tutorials and presentations that made up the 11th Participatory Design Conference 2010 at the beginning of this month (December) is already somewhat of a blur of great people, insights & presentations. I hoped to provide a summary of my own, but alas the thesis called – instead I’ve collated some fabulous insights by others who not only attended and contributed but who also managed to share their experiences  Thanks again to all those who came and participated and thanks to the following authors (esp. @malbooth ) for sharing your thoughts. Continue reading…