CoPDA 2026
Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 11 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 11 papers were accepted for this volume.

Papers

• Who Holds the Agency? Meta-Design in the Age of Generative AI
  Daniela Fogli, Luigi Gargioni, Davide Guizzardi
• A Human-Centred Framework for Retrieval-Grounded Cold-Start Recommendation
  Stefano Valtolina, Ricardo Anibal Matamoros, Francesco Epifania
• Hybrid Human-AI Socio-Technical Environments in the Digital Age
  Gerhard Fischer
• Generative AI-Augmented End-User Development of Creative Physical Computing Projects
  Monica Maceli, Haoxiang Zhang
• Designing an LLM-based Assistant for Speech Therapists: the Case of e-SpeechT
  Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Antonio Piccinno, Alfonso Pio Pretorino
• A Pilot Study to Evaluate Success Criteria for Symbiotic AI
  Miriana Calvano, Antonio Curci, Paloma Diaz, Rosa Lanzilotti
• Design Requirements for Value-Critical Systems
  Marc Herrmann, Elisa Schmid, Michael Mircea, Kurt Schneider
• Co-Design to Meta-Design in Oncology Caregiving: Enabling End-User Development of an AI Mental Health Support System
  Chizoba Agwaonye, Anicia Peters, Neda Azarmehr, Jose Abdelnour-Nocera
• Talking with Cody: How Middle School Students Enact AI as a Tool, Conversational Partner, and Tutee in Mathematics Programming Activities
  Anders I. Mørch, Marianne Eidsaune Andersen, Henrik Tjønn
• Enabling Intelligent User Control in AI-Driven Recommender Systems
  Shin'ichi Konomi
• Do Ambiguous Prompts Lead to Risky Behavior? Insights from a Home Automation Study with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
  Margherita Andrao, Diego Morra, Gianluca Schiavo