Edularp (educational live-action role play) has been used as an educational method in several subjects but not in formal computer science education (CSE) and formal digital literacy education (DLE). This paper answers the question “How can edularp be used in CSE and DLE?” on the basis of a unique mixed-methods approach. We report on, first, our online survey and, second, on our approach of research through co-design, which we carried out together with eleven in-service and pre-service teachers of CSE and DLE. We identified several potential topics and skills that could be worked on through edularps in CSE or DLE. With this we deliver insights for future edularp designers, as well as for education specialists. Furthermore, we describe six edularp prototypes which were one of the results of our research through the co-design process. We also reflect on our research through co-design in regard of empowerment, its benefits and its challenges.

Increasing ubiquitousness of information and communication technology exerts influence on crisis and disaster management. New media enable citizens to rapidly self-organise in emergent groups. Theoretical framing of their interactions with established organisations is lacking. To address this, we conduct a thematic analysis on qualitative data from the European migration crisis of 2015. We draw on context-rich material from both emergent groups and established organisation. To represent our findings, we introduce the notion of socio-technical dynamics. We derive implications for computer supported cooperative work in crises and disasters. These insights contribute to the efficient involvement of emergent groups in established systems.

Health issues, due to a sedentary lifestyle and a decrease of physical activity are a raising issue in today's society. In order to provide incentives to stay physically active the potential of digital games gets evaluated in a scientific context towards their motivational effects. Games or game related applications offer a range of opportunities regarding the integration of physical activities replacing traditional controller input with bodily exertion, such as location-based mobile games. However, game design is a complex process and integrating physical activities in a meaningful way makes it even a greater challenge. With this work, we aim to provide a design case describing how this challenge can be approached. We illustrate how formal recommendations for physical activity by the World Health Organization and principals of meaningful play can inform the blueprint for the design of a location-based mobile game using a user-centered approach.

Smoking is a serious health problem and there exists a number of different aids to quit this habit. However, nicotine dependency is a complex addiction and not all means of cessation suit every smoker. In this work we present Vibrette, a mobile tangible device designed to ease the smoking craving by offering a distractive game. We illustrate the design process, show different design alternatives and discuss the decisions made. Furthermore, we give an overview about an ongoing user study and reflect on the insights we gathered during the field-test. Finally, we show our conclusions and how these will influence the future work and next design iterations of the prototype.

Increasing attention is currently paid to informal care and the physical, emotional, and psychological burden stemming from it. Research findings suggest that such a burden might be intensified when informal caregivers are at older ages. Aiming at reducing the burden associated with informal care, some research studies have focused on developing innovative technologies to support caregivers with their activities and responsibilities. These studies highlight the importance of understanding the many variables that characterise different care situations, emphasizing the relevance of user-centered and participatory design approaches. Following up the successful first edition of the CCCiC workshop held at the 2014 ACM CSCW conference in Baltimore, this workshop elaborates on the resulting roadmap for future research in the domain: concepts, methods, and technologies. This workshop seeks contributions exploring issues of collaboration and coordination for informal care addressing concepts emerging from field research, methodological challenges, work-in-progress, and the design and evaluation of technological solutions.

In this paper we investigate conceptually and empirically in a software development company whether Enterprise 2.0 components contain awareness mechanisms. As a result, we introduce additional mechanisms to take the first step to improve awareness in complex cooperative work environments. After a sh

This showcase paper describes the research of the Multidisciplinary Design Group, Vienna University of Technology, over the course of more than 20 years. It discusses this research and the contributions to CSCW resulting from it, under four headings: work practices in health care; studies of design practice and development of supporting technologies; coordination work and technologies; and gender studies, identifying the factors that shaped the group's engagement in specific projects and the analytical frameworks they developed in collaboration with international cooperation partners.

Coordination design (CoorD) is about designing the coordination work. It looks for coordination patterns in work practices, identifies coordinative constructs and tries to identify structures in activities carried out It describes how to provide elements necessary to produce computer support for coordination work. Coordination design is integrated in a system design process, starts at the same time and ends before implementation. It is interdisciplinary and contains several engineering techniques like requirement analysis or modeling as well as methods from other disciplines like ethnography. It uses coordination rules to describe the temporal and logical order of tasks performed in a cooperative work setting. Coordination design is participatory, contextual, situative, object-oriented, model-driven and rule-based. It consists of several steps: contextual inquiry, task analysis, domain modeling, rule creation and deployment of coordination rules. This paper introduces coordination design and shows its methodology in detail.