Åsmund Dæhlen

About

My research addresses the challenge of scaling Participatory Design in the context of healthcare digitalization. I investigate how user participation can be organized and sustained when digital infrastructures are designed across organizational boundaries. The empirical foundation is a longitudinal case study of a project developing digital solutions for patient handover in Norwegian primary care. I draw on Scandinavian Participatory Design and Information Systems infrastructure theory, developing a Participatory Democratic Theory of Systems Design.

Selected publications

• User mobilization in bottom-up infrastructural transformation
• User Participation in Infrastructuring: Exploring the Space for Action
• Immersion as a Strategy to Facilitate Participatory Design Involving People With Intellectual Disabilities and Caretakers as Proxies
• Enabling People With Intellectual Disabilities to Participate in Design An Immersive Strategy to Facilitate Long-term Participatory Design Using Social Workers as Proxies
• Hva krever digitaliseringen av helsearbeidere og ledere?
• MECHANISMS OF DEMOCRATIC DESIGN - Rethinking large scale Participatory Design