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  1. 1.

    Classical references with tentative answers to the question what PD is about are, for example, Bjerknes et al. (1987), Greenbaum and Kyng (1991), Schuler and Namioka (1993), Kuhn and Muller (1993), Trigg and Anderson (1996), Blomberg and Kensing (1998). The evolution of the term can also be seen in the proceedings of the biannual Participatory Design Conference.

  2. 2.

    Floyd et al. (1989) contains a historical reconstruction of Scandinavian ICT development projects with worker/user participation, concepts and ideas that provided the background, and important references for further reading. Bansler (1987, 1989) argues for a particular classification of Scandinavian approaches to ICT development, reconstructs relations between the categories and locates predecessors of PD.

  3. 3.

    As an indicator, 12 out of the 23 full papers presented at the Participatory Design Conference 2004 (Clement and van den Besselaar, 2004) contain at least one reference to “Design at work” edited by Greenbaum and Kyng (1991); at the Participatory Design Conference, 2006 (Jacucci et al., 2006), 9 of the 15 full papers refer to it at least once.

  4. 4.

    In practice, larger societal issues and local relations are inevitably tied to each other, so this distinction should be seen as merely an analytical one.

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    Törpel, B., Voss, A., Hartswood, M., Procter, R. (2009). Participatory Design: Issues and Approaches in Dynamic Constellations of Use, Design, and Research. In: Büscher, M., Slack, R., Rouncefield, M., Procter, R., Hartswood, M., Voss, A. (eds) Configuring User-Designer Relations. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-925-5_2

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