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Short abstract:

The digital transformation of healthcare requires interdisciplinary col-laboration and participatory involvement of stakeholders from diverse, sometimes vulnerable groups through co-creation. This collaboration offers opportunities and challenges, illustrated by two interview studies' results.

Long abstract:

The starting point for the presentation are co-laborations in interdisciplinary and interprofessional technology development projects (TDP) that each develop hybrid health technologies. The aims of participation in TDP are to develop technologies that adapt well to the users' living environments, meet their needs, or change or improve social practices. An important factor is the exchange between the disciplines and professions and the willingness to learn together to implement participatory formats.

As part of an accompanying research project (AP), group interviews have been conducted with TDP. Among others, the conditions for the success of interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration (ICD) as well as heterogeneous understandings of participation were discussed. The AP (social informatics, UX research, co-creation, care, gerontology) accompanies the TDP and consults on participatory methods, for example.

Based on the results of the interviews (e.g., finding a common language, dealing with prejudices, heterogeneous goals, heterogeneous understandings of participation) and the experiences of a reflective accompaniment through the AP, a use has been developed. The following questions will be discussed: 1) Is the interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality of the TDP a pitfall or a prerequisite in the context of participatory technology development? 2) How can a common understanding of participation be negotiated within the TDP in order to facilitate the design of participatory formats? 3) What role can the reflective support provided by the AP play here? The interactive contribution includes the presentation of a podcast in which the use case is discussed from social science, socio-technical and technological perspectives.