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Behavioural Change For Efficient Usage Of Electricity At Homes, Engin Kapkın, Sharon Joines
Behavioural Change For Efficient Usage Of Electricity At Homes, Engin Kapkın, Sharon Joines
Learn X Design Conference Series
Electricity is not visible or tangible yet always available in our houses. The only way users can keep track of electricity consumption is to look at meters or monthly bills. Energy-monitoring systems promise to help user to understand their consumption by visualizing and displaying the consumption data in meaningfully way. However, they are not successful in changing users’ behaviours and sustaining their intentions. The current paper presents a suggestion to promote behavioural change by adopting Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) Theory to stratify the target user groups and applying user-centred design approach when developing a prototype of conceptual electricity monitoring system. …
Influential Elements Of Creativity In Art, Architecture, And Design Creative Processes: A Grounded Theory Analysis, Ahmad Fakhra, Judith Gregory
Influential Elements Of Creativity In Art, Architecture, And Design Creative Processes: A Grounded Theory Analysis, Ahmad Fakhra, Judith Gregory
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Creativity in art, architecture, and design was investigated in this analytical study through the qualitative research methodology of grounded theory. A data set comprising published interviews with eighteen eminent creative artists, architects, designers, and leaders of creative organizations was analyzed to generate an initial grounded theory model for the creative process phenomenon of generating creative insights. Five influential elements to the creative process were identified from the analysis: sources of creativity that yield creative insights; strategies that instigate creativity; influential factors that drive creativity; individual and collaborative modes of working; and characteristic qualities of creative results. The analysis presented is …
Designing For Cultural Diversity: Participatory Design, Immigrant Women And Shared Creativity, Naureen Mumtaz
Designing For Cultural Diversity: Participatory Design, Immigrant Women And Shared Creativity, Naureen Mumtaz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Immigration and multiculturalism are realities of the globalized world that has given rise to subcultures, which possess specialized knowledge. This increasing interaction among people from diverse cultures has produced a complex ethno-cultural mosaic that presents formidable challenges for visual communication designers’ as well as for other designers. Cultural diversity of designers and audience of messages in a design scenario brings complexity in the design research process. This research study explores an effective visual communication language, through the medium of the poster, for culturally diverse audience of immigrant women in Edmonton, Canada. The decision was informed by triangulated results from a …
Designing For Design Activity, Sunghyun Kang
Designing For Design Activity, Sunghyun Kang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The area of graphic design has expanded since digital media was introduced, and it requires new creative thinking skills in the design process. This paper proposes a design process for a graphic design graduate class using activity theory as a theoretical background. This design process consists of three phases to solve the design problems within diverse design projects. Each phase was examined in terms of how the elements of activity theory could apply to the design process. As a research method, Engeström's activity system model was adapted and explored in the design processes. A case study is presented to see …