Foresight and Forecasts: Participation in a Welfare Technology Innovation Project

Kyle Kilbourn; Marie Brøndum Bay

doi:10.1145/1900441.1900496

Foresight and Forecasts: Participation in a Welfare Technology Innovation Project

Kyle Kilbourn, Marie Brøndum Bay

Faculty of Engineering

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Abstract

In predicting areas of growth, public innovation projects may rely on optimistic visions of technology still in development as a way of ensuring novelty for funding. This paper explores what happens when forecasts of robotic technology meets the practice of sterile supply in a preliminary stage of an ongoing project. We examine the nature of participation in design on three levels: in the sterilization ward, this particular project and society in general. From our case, we suggest that while innovation projects proceeding from a certain technological
perspective can succeed at building excitement, the most sustainable innovation stems from the dialogical interaction between practitioner foresight and societal
forecasting, requiring continued development of participatory design as it moves into new contexts.

Original language	English
Publication date	3. Dec 2010
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1900441.1900496
Publication status	Published - 3. Dec 2010
Event	11th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2010 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 29. Nov 2010 → 3. Dec 2010

Conference

Conference	11th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2010
Country	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	29/11/2010 → 03/12/2010

Keywords

Participatory innovation
robotics
healthcare
facilitation

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