New impulses from theoretical discussions on urban planning strengthen the role of participation in urbanplanning. Combining this development with the options computer- and network-based technologies offerpromises to improve the citizens' satisfaction with the results of planning procedures. We...

CSCW tools are the point where the amalgamation of thefour concepts mentioned in the workshop call take place.From a more prospective than analytical perspective wediscuss possible future community tools. In this positionpaper we describe some thoughts on what kind of workmay be done in...

Participatory approaches for the design and the introduction of computersystems are drawing increasingly more attention among researchers as well asamong practitioners. While participatory design (Schuler and Namioka 1993)might be considered as only "helpful" for the development of...