Participatory design of agricultural decision support tools: taking account of the use situations

Although many agronomic researchers currently focus on designing and developing decision support systems, they rarely discuss the methodological implications of such work. In this paper, with the examples of two decision support systems, we propose methodological elements for conducting the participatory design of such tools. The authors proposition aims at building dialogue between designers and users but also between humans, tools and work situations. The authors proposes two main stages: first, a diagnosis of the uses of decision tools within current working situations and, second, the use of a prototype of the tool under design