e-shape co-design self-diagnosis tool
Description
Introduction
This tool has been developed in the framework of the European Commission H2020 funded project e-shape. It is a contribution to EuroGEO and the GEO Community. It helps to carry out its own co-design needs diagnosis in the Earth observation domain. It is composed of three sheets : the first one presents all the necessary instructions to successfully conduct this work, the second one provides the tables and additional information which will guide you through the diagnosis and the third sheet is an example of diagnosis. This document initiate the diagnosis process and a telco will be carried out in order to finalise it.
What is co-design in e-shape ?
Co-design relates to a large variety of situations but can be generally described as a collective design process involving heterogeneous actors. In e-shape, co-design is used as a toolbox to support the development of the different pilots. Existing co-design methods focusing on user-centricity tend to consider that it is all about involving users in the process. However, in the Earth Observation context, developing services based on this type of data is particularly challenging, because of the high level of technical expertise needed (combining both knowledge on data processing and knowledge on the domain of the final usage) and the heterogeneity of actors that might contribute to the successful development of user-centric services(not only users and researcher but potentially all other actors of the ecosystem - related to legislation, platform owners, technical developers etc…). Because of these specificities, a co-design method specific to Earth Observation context is being developed within e-shape, based on recent advances of design theory.