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