Designing Mika – A Participation Companion for Supporting Participation and Enhancing Motivation
Abstract
The body of design knowledge surrounding information systems aimed at facilitating participation is presently limited and primarily focuses on top-down approaches. In response to this shortcoming, we propose a bottom up methodology through the development of a Participation Companion that supports people in their participation process and could be a solution to motivate people to participate. Especially the lack of motivation plays an important role in participation, which is why in an earlier study, we followed a very creative, participatory, and user-centered approach to instantiate a prototype in three stages and then extracting five reflective design principles. Building on this foundation, we created Mika, our prototype, which aims to promote user engagement and participation
Keywords
Virtual Companions; Participation; Human-Computer Interaction; Smart Cities; Conversational Agent