Community-Driven Development: Approaching Participatory Design in the Online World

Jan Hess holds a diploma degree in applied computer science. After finishing his thesis on new directions for digital television, he started working for the chair of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen. Within the last five years, he supervised a variety of industry founded projects in the field of iTV and Social Media. His PhD is focused on Participatory Design and HCI issues.

Volkmar Pipek is an assistant professor with the Institute for Information Systems of the University of Siegen, Germany. He explores the relations between design, development and appropriation of Information Technology in general, and in Participatory Design approaches in particular, to improve development methods and tools. He is also the co-founder and chair of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics in Bonn, Germany.