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...mirror and face each other to talk. She briefly connects [...] to say hello to Charlotte, and her video picture automatically appears on the flat screen that is currently used by Charlotte. [70] [55] =-=[40]-=-,[66] implicit communication in form of mutual awareness is an important requirement for a shared understanding and knowledge about ongoing and past activities within a team [90]. Mutual awareness usu...

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...gn. Although in some contexts it may be valuable to establish clear definitions of what constitutes participatory design, as does Kensing [12], we find that inevitably, such definitions will be challenged or expanded when designers engage in new types of projects, such as The Urban Mediaspace Aarhus case. In order to steer clear of terminological confusion, we have intentionally refrained from labeling The Urban Mediaspace Aarhus project a participatory design project, instead using terms such as “participatory approaches” and “user involvement”. We concur with Iversen, Kanstrup, and Petersen [11], who argue that participatory design is more than a set of methods and techniques. They describe it as an approach driven by emancipatory, democratic values, or in other words, the tools and techniques representative of participatory design embody higher layers of concerns and values that can guide, inspire, and focus design. Judging from the findings from The Urban Mediaspace Aarhus project, our position is that both values and methods from participatory design can certainly be employed in largescale design projects. We therefore see The Urban Mediaspace Aarhus project as a potential source ...

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...mple, argued for the need and benefits of design strategies based on explicit social and ethical norms. The iHome project at the University at Aarhus is an important contribution to this HCI approach =-=[20]-=-. Its rasion d’être is to not make the home a carbon copy of the office as some large companies [1] have done, but to revitalize utopian ideals in the design of technology and implement them with syst...

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