Designing worth is worth designing
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Roles, scenarios and challenges of social devices
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
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Participatory design methods face challenges when designing for a widespread youth community. In such projects, it is not enough to design in collaboration with a few selected individuals; one must also strive to understand the community at a deeper level and incorporate its values and practices into the design solution. We report on our process of designing with, and for, an identified youth group: the Parkour and Freerunning community. We show how the successful design relied not only on employing methods of participatory observation and participatory design, but also on acquiring an understanding of the practice as a "fun community", valuing play over achievement and competition.