Designing Mika – A Participation Companion for Supporting Participation and Enhancing Motivation
Varinia Wittholz, Paul F. G. Keller, Timo Strohmann, Susanne Robra-Bissantz · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2024
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 usercentered 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.