Beyond interaction: meta-design and cultures of participation

  • Authors:
  • Gerhard Fischer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Most interesting, important, and pressing problems facing societies in the 21st century transcend the unaided individual human mind. They require collaborative systems to explore, frame, solve, and assess their solutions. Cultures of participation represent foundations for the next generation of collaborative systems by supporting all stakeholders to participate actively in personally meaningful problems. Meta-design supports cultures of participation by defining and creating social and technical infrastructures in which users can choose to become designers. These developments create new discourses in human-computer interaction (HCI), complementing and transcending current approaches centered on interaction. This article illustrates these objectives and themes with specific examples and articulates their relevance for the OzCHI conference theme "Design, Culture and Interaction".