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Between February and March 2025, the Signo project entered its final phase of participatory inquiry with a set of three assessment workshops (6, 12, and 20 February) and a concluding session (6 March). These events brought back participants from previous stages to critically evaluate the speculative prototypes and value-based scenarios developed during the project.

The assessment workshops invited participants to reflect on fictional artefacts — including illustrated storyboards and physical probes like consent forms and user manuals — that embodied future technologies shaped by specific value clusters. Through structured debate and collaborative analysis, each group examined how well the imagined systems aligned with the values of Responsibility, Inclusion, and Humanisation.

In the final session, participants and researchers gathered to synthesise insights across all workshops. Discussions focused on how values such as transparency, autonomy, empathy, and robustness are negotiated in practice — and how they might be better supported in the design of health technologies.

These sessions marked the culmination of Signo’s participatory approach, reaffirming the need for critical, value-sensitive design methods in digital health. The results will inform future guidelines and prototypes that respond not only to clinical needs, but also to human concerns.