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Participatory Design Research, Documenting The Experience Of Gainesville Local Drag Performers., Gilberto Corona
Participatory Design Research, Documenting The Experience Of Gainesville Local Drag Performers., Gilberto Corona
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This case study documents the process of research, identification, and co-creation —with members of the drag community— a visual ethnography of Gainesville's drag culture. This study documented drag performance as an integral element of public-facing queer communities and took place during 2021 and 2022. Drag GNV aim is to contextualize the importance and nuance of drag as an activity supporting LGBTQ+ individuals and communities and as a publicly visible format for sharing elements of LGBTQ+ community identity with broader audiences. This research focused on conversations with the queer community (performers and allies) and centered reflections on drag venues as safe …
Missing The Bus: A Toolkit For Amplifying Unheard Voices Of Women Commuters In India, Dhriti Dhaundiyal, Nishant Sharma
Missing The Bus: A Toolkit For Amplifying Unheard Voices Of Women Commuters In India, Dhriti Dhaundiyal, Nishant Sharma
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Inequity in access is created when infrastructure and services are created for the de-fault 'generic user'. Mobility has long been a key factor in empowerment of women, defining how women navigate their personal and professional lives. The number of women using public buses in India has remained low. Policy formulation for large populations is driven by statistical analysis and data models that do not account for marginalized groups. The present toolkit used to develop the comprehensive mobility plan for Indian cities lacks the tools to elicit tacit needs and requirements of such citizens. To address this gap, we designed a …
Towards A Design Methodology Against Oppression, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Marco Mazzarotto
Towards A Design Methodology Against Oppression, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Marco Mazzarotto
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This article aims to present a methodology that has been developed in design projects that combat oppression. The proposal emerged from work led by the Brazilian Design and Oppression Network in partnership with social movements and oppressed communities. The methodology has six guiding axes: popular assembly, dialogues, generating themes, unveiling, collective praxis, and systematization of experience. These axes bring together principles and practices stemming from critical pedagogy and militant research which can help designers and researchers with the particularities of conducting projects engaged in struggles against oppression.
Co-Creating The Spectacle: Identifying Design Dimensions Of Opening Ceremonies To Embed Participatory Approaches, Xinwei Wan, Virgilio Vasconcelos, Sandy Claes
Co-Creating The Spectacle: Identifying Design Dimensions Of Opening Ceremonies To Embed Participatory Approaches, Xinwei Wan, Virgilio Vasconcelos, Sandy Claes
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Opening Ceremonies of mega-events captivate a global audience and have the potential of nurturing a sense of community belonging among the population of the host country. From the visual identity to the stage design and its live media broadcast, such ceremonies unite different design practices. The underlying design processes usually depart from a top-down perspective, often prompted by specific social and political realities. As a result, inhabitants may experience a diminished sense of belonging. Participatory approaches are able to challenge oppressive power relations, and are increasingly deployed in mainstream media, yet the scale and complexity of the design of opening …
Designing (For) Transitions And Transformations: Imagination, Climate Futures, And Everyday Lives, Femke Coops, Dan Lockton, İdil Gaziulusoy, Cameron Tonkinwise, Joanna Boehnert, Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Anja Overdiek, Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Alma Leora Leora Culén, Silvana Juri
Designing (For) Transitions And Transformations: Imagination, Climate Futures, And Everyday Lives, Femke Coops, Dan Lockton, İdil Gaziulusoy, Cameron Tonkinwise, Joanna Boehnert, Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Anja Overdiek, Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Alma Leora Leora Culén, Silvana Juri
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The urgency of crises in planetary health—climate, biodiversity loss, inequality, and others—has made design’s role in transformative change ever-more important in the pursuit of sustainable, just and resilient futures. Arising from distinct disciplinary traditions within academia, design, futures, transitions, sustainability science and allied approaches (with their own norms, frameworks, and methods) are increasingly converging. Emerging from this space are new configurations and integrations, especially in practical applications where policymakers, communities, businesses, and new forms of organisation are engaging with challenges we face—often situated and local, but interdependent within complex systems of society and the environment. In design research, approaches such …
Ai-Designed Creative Products: Consumption, Creativity, And Consumer Value, Luo Wang, Xinrui Zhang, Tie Ji
Ai-Designed Creative Products: Consumption, Creativity, And Consumer Value, Luo Wang, Xinrui Zhang, Tie Ji
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely employed to empower creative industries. Many enterprises have adopted AI to design creative products (CPs). This study investigates the determinants of purchase behavior and consumer attitudes towards AI-design CPs. Two studies were conducted. Study 1, with 764 participants, aims to determine if consumers have a positive view of AI design. Results indicate recognition of AI's creative abilities, with the designer's identity significantly affecting creativity evaluation. Study 2, based on 328 surveys, explores consumer evaluations of AI-designed products, purchase intentions, and attitudes. The result indicates that the impact of social relationship value on consumer purchase intention …
Prospective Design: A Structuralist Design Aesthetic Founded On Relational Qualities, Fernanda Botter, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel, Marco André Mazzarotto Filho, Cayley Guimarães
Prospective Design: A Structuralist Design Aesthetic Founded On Relational Qualities, Fernanda Botter, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel, Marco André Mazzarotto Filho, Cayley Guimarães
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Prospective design is a research program founded on critical dialogues between Global South and Global North philosophies of design. Prospective design expands the current work on designing sociotechnical transitions by including the contradiction between “forces of nature” and “human forces” as a structural feature of Western society, which generates patriarchal and feminist worldviews, colonies and metropolises, and capitalist and socialist economic systems. In prospective design, contradictions are sensed, expressed, and worked out through a structuralist design aesthetic founded on the concept of existential structures, i.e. an accumulated set of relationships needed to reproduce human life. Instead of changing them directly, …
Exploring Human-Centered Design Method Selection Strategies With Large Language Models, Vivek Rao, Yuanrui Zhu, Timothy Yang, Euiyoung Kim, Alice Agogino, Kosa Goucher-Lambert
Exploring Human-Centered Design Method Selection Strategies With Large Language Models, Vivek Rao, Yuanrui Zhu, Timothy Yang, Euiyoung Kim, Alice Agogino, Kosa Goucher-Lambert
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In human-centered design (HCD) projects, designers select and use a variety of design methods in pursuit of a desired outcome. Given the prominence of method selection in designer behavior, what distinguishes a design team’s method selections from design method selection based on frequency or probability? To explore this question, we compare HCD methods suggested by the publicly-available large-language model, GPT-3.5, to 402 novice design team method selections over five offerings of a design projectbased learning course at a large public university. We observe that GPT-3.5 appears to represent design method knowledge held in method repositories like theDesignExchange well. We also …
Ethics In/Of/For Design, Deger Ozkaramanli, Laura F. Ferrarello, Linda N. Laursen
Ethics In/Of/For Design, Deger Ozkaramanli, Laura F. Ferrarello, Linda N. Laursen
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We frame design ethics as an invitation to care and argue against reducing it to a methodology, framework, checklist, toolkit, or an afterthought. This broad framing acknowledges that ‘ethics’ can carry multiple meanings in different contexts (e.g. responsible, critical, democratic) and can be approached from various theoretical perspectives (e.g. historical, cultural, speculative). Consequently, we recognize the need for a nuanced and reflexive discussion on why, where and how ethical questions and dilemmas intersect with design research and practices. For this, we aim to look back with critical historical awareness, while also looking forward with cautious optimism. We welcome both theoretical …
Design For Empowerment, Laura Santamaria, Ksenija Kuzmina
Design For Empowerment, Laura Santamaria, Ksenija Kuzmina
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This track aims to explore empowerment as the primary focus of design for social change, and not merely a side effect or an outcome of design activity. While plenty of studies evidence empowerment through design, a more nuanced discussion on the ways in which empowerment by design is planned, achieved and articulated, how and what kind of empowerment is being facilitated through design projects is timely and necessary. These discussions are essential for introducing a critical perspective currently absent in the articulation of empowerment within design for social change. In the design literature, strong voices have emerged advocating for deeper …
Healing Our Designing: Practices Of Care For Human And More-Than-Human Relations, Marysol Ortega Pallanez
Healing Our Designing: Practices Of Care For Human And More-Than-Human Relations, Marysol Ortega Pallanez
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Ongoing socio-ecological damages stem from dominant design practices rooted in modernist, capitalist ideologies that exploit nature. If we, designers, aim to contribute to healing the web of life, our practices also need healing. Seeking an alternative paradigm to problem-driven design, this article narrates my journey to embrace a paradigm of relation-caring that encompasses humans and more-than-humans. Drawing upon experiences with fellow embroiderers in Hermosillo, Mexico, I present two everyday design practices that explore women-plant relations in the desert: 1) cultivating relationships by embroidery of memories, presents, and futures with plants; and 2) infusing diálogo de saberes (wisdom dialogues) with embodied …
Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton
Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton
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Futures thinking, and doing, has been the domain of the privileged majority for centuries. The very idea of ‘the future’ (singular) was fundamental to the crea-tion and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity. To this day, mainstream media readily emits the narrow and repetitive science fic-tion tropes void of (realistic, fair) representation of a wider inclusive society, specifically absent of queerness. This paper builds on the work of Alexis Lothian’s ‘Old Futures: speculative fiction and queer possibility’ in which she explores the forces queer people (and other marginalised communities) invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way …
Spatial Distribution, Characterization, And Policy Opportunities For Taiwan's Solo Elderly: A Big Data Approach, Yu-Ta Lin, Wei-Chu Chen, Hsuan-Ta Yu, I-Ting Cho
Spatial Distribution, Characterization, And Policy Opportunities For Taiwan's Solo Elderly: A Big Data Approach, Yu-Ta Lin, Wei-Chu Chen, Hsuan-Ta Yu, I-Ting Cho
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As Taiwan approaches super-aging by 2025, this study uses the 2022 Ministry of the Interior database combined with geospatial analysis and machine learning to examine solo elderly demographical patterns and assess current "Community Care Stations." Findings: 1. Urban areas have higher aging and solo rates closer to city centers, while rural areas show the opposite pattern; 2. "Dual aging" (elderly and old houses) is common in metropolitan areas; 3. Solo elderly are predomi-nantly urban females, suburban males, often separated, widowed, or divorced, with fewer children or residing in different regions; 4. Both advantaged and dis-advantaged solo elderly are identified in …
Speculative Ethics, Design, Philosophy & Education, Wouter Eggink
Speculative Ethics, Design, Philosophy & Education, Wouter Eggink
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Designing requires great social and moral responsibility as we are surrounded by products and services that shape -and simultaneously get shaped by- the way we live. This asks for active reflection on ethical issues. However, with the classical top-down approach, ethics may be perceived as restrictive, setting boundaries for what is allowed and what not. Within philosophy of technology, ethical reflection is moving towards a more constructive approach, accompanying technological development with careful considerations. This paper takes a step further and proposes something that could be called 'creative ethics', where a bottom-up approach in dealing with ethical issues fosters inspiration …
Health-Promotion Information Is Not Effective: General Goals Of Health And Wellbeing Conflict With Young Adults’ Instant Needs In Cooking And Food Choices, Taoran Ji, Debra Lilley, Emma Haycraft
Health-Promotion Information Is Not Effective: General Goals Of Health And Wellbeing Conflict With Young Adults’ Instant Needs In Cooking And Food Choices, Taoran Ji, Debra Lilley, Emma Haycraft
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Young adults are living in an era where nutritional and health knowledge is more accessible and advanced than ever before. However, young adults’ diets are still a concern. The PhD research reported on in this paper aims to suggest behavioural interventions that can align young adults’ individual dietary needs and their long-term goals of eating healthily. Using the methods of diary study, semi-structured interviews and card sorting, this research investigated young adults’ perceptions of their dietary behaviours and experiences of prior interventions, to understand the gap between their ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ in terms of healthy eating. The findings indicated that …
Tinder, I Don’T Like This: Identifying Desired User Interaction Qualities To Support Intimacy Building In The Online Environment, Petra Salaric, Rebecca Cain, Emilene Zitkus, Valentijn Visch
Tinder, I Don’T Like This: Identifying Desired User Interaction Qualities To Support Intimacy Building In The Online Environment, Petra Salaric, Rebecca Cain, Emilene Zitkus, Valentijn Visch
DRS Biennial Conference Series
As internet became the primary source for relationship formation, reports have emerged of negative experiences, poorer mental health and lower wellbeing. The design of online dating services influences user behaviours and can either support or inhibit relationship formation. To foster successful online relationship formation, understanding desired interaction qualities is crucial. This exploratory study presents a survey involving 100 participants from 23 nationalities across 5 continents. It identifies five key desired interaction qualities: excitement, comfort, safety, trust, and reciprocity. While trust emerged as the most vital for intimacy building yet often lacking in the online environment, excitement and playfulness were identified …
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Discourse Of Conduct And Ethics In Professional Design, Veronika Kelly, Meghan Kelly
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Discourse Of Conduct And Ethics In Professional Design, Veronika Kelly, Meghan Kelly
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Knowledge of professional design is (re)produced through discourse and its culture of use: from the language used, interactions with others and objects created, to the techniques and procedures that connect and distribute professional design knowledge. Here, discourse both shapes and is shaped by social practices and communicated through structures such as codes of conduct and codes of ethics. This paper explores the discourse of codes of conduct and codes of ethics for professional design developed by peak design organisations. We argue that such codes serve as forms of industry self-regulation encapsulating designers’ responsibilities and the ethics of their practices. However, …
Revisiting The Uncanny Valley Effect: A Data-Driven Analysis With Curve Fitting Perspective, Xiner Li, Yi Xiao, Yan Zheng, Jinhao Qiao, Chi-Sing Leung
Revisiting The Uncanny Valley Effect: A Data-Driven Analysis With Curve Fitting Perspective, Xiner Li, Yi Xiao, Yan Zheng, Jinhao Qiao, Chi-Sing Leung
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Uncanny Valley (UV) is a vital part of design research because it directly affects users' emotional responses and acceptance of anthropomorphic technical products. Traditional research relies on curve fitting to measure UV effects. However, these works often overlook the impact of data quality including scale and distribution on the accuracy and stability of fitting results. This study places a strong emphasis on the mediating role of data in UV, revisiting UV using a dataset comprising 1,000 static facial images of humanoid entities, evenly spanning the entire human likeness spectrum. The results reveal a different UV shape than Mori's original …
Transitional Object As Empowerment Tool: Workshops For Latina Women To Persevere In Higher Education, Angelica Sibrian
Transitional Object As Empowerment Tool: Workshops For Latina Women To Persevere In Higher Education, Angelica Sibrian
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Thackara’s efforts to create spaces focused on wellbeing, and less on products, were invoked in this research. However, rather than simply abandoning the object, this work reassigns meaning to these objects—using them as empowerment tools—designed to become extensions of the body, thoughts, and experiences. This case study details the development and implementation of workshops designed to empower young Latina women persevere in higher education. The workshops brought awareness to structural barriers, coaching in self-reflective techniques, and the co-creation of transitional totemic (symbolic) objects that serve as aides-mémoires of the event. This paper highlights the workshops in three points: a) a …
Co-Design Under The Bauhaus Of The Seas Light-House Project: A New European Bauhaus Case Study In Lisbon And Oeiras, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Nicholas B. Torretta, Frederico Duarte, Luisa Seixas, Mariana Pestana, Yacooba Labs Lda, Redcatpig Lda, Ann Light, Nuno Nunes
Co-Design Under The Bauhaus Of The Seas Light-House Project: A New European Bauhaus Case Study In Lisbon And Oeiras, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Nicholas B. Torretta, Frederico Duarte, Luisa Seixas, Mariana Pestana, Yacooba Labs Lda, Redcatpig Lda, Ann Light, Nuno Nunes
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The Bauhaus of the Seas (BoS) is one of the Lighthouse projects of the New European Bauhaus initiative (NEB). The project promotes the application of the NEB values – sustainable, beautiful, together – to develop locally grounded De-monstrator Pilots and focus cities’ attention on the future of the oceans. A co-design approach is being applied in a series of participatory sessions with stake-holders, including nature/ecosystem experts, cultural institutions, local authori-ties and civic organizations, aiming at a consolidated collaborative approach. In this report we present the results from the co-design processes under develop-ment in Oeiras and Lisbon – two coastal territories …
Exploring More-Than-Human Worlds And Becoming With Living And Non-Living Entities Through Play, Filipe Pais
Exploring More-Than-Human Worlds And Becoming With Living And Non-Living Entities Through Play, Filipe Pais
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In recent years, we have observed the emergence of a variety of video games that allow their players to temporarily exist entangled in more-than-human worlds, becoming with other species and things. Informed and inspired by posthuman philosophies, this article examines three video games: Everything (2017), Stray (2022), and Endling - Extinction is Forever (2022). This analysis focuses on three key questions: 1) How are these games enabling players to become with non-human characters representing real-life organisms? 2) What kinds of knowledge do players gain about these worlds? 3) How to define a more-than-human playful experience? The article concludes by introducing …
Precedent Knowledge: Practicing Designers’ Perspectives And Experiences, Elizabeth Boling, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Merve Basdogan, Zixi Li, Hamid Nadir, Dilnoza Kadirova, Taufik Slamet, Grant Chartrand, Parama Chaudhuri, Yichuan Yan, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Ahmed Lachheb
Precedent Knowledge: Practicing Designers’ Perspectives And Experiences, Elizabeth Boling, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Merve Basdogan, Zixi Li, Hamid Nadir, Dilnoza Kadirova, Taufik Slamet, Grant Chartrand, Parama Chaudhuri, Yichuan Yan, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Ahmed Lachheb
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This basic qualitative study informed by a hermeneutics approach presents how practicing designers across multiple domains of design define the construct of precedent knowledge, a form of design knowledge, and how they collect and use it in their design work. Interviews were conducted with 18 practicing designers across multiple domains of design, including fashion, product, graphic, game, instructional, and media design. Whether they used the specific term “precedent” or not, the study participants were able to address and discuss their precedent knowledge. They also reported multiple and varied sources of precedent, as well as multiple and varied practices in gathering …
Changing The Negative Narrative Of Aging: A Case Study On Sexual Wellness Services For Women In Later Life, Camilla Borghi, Daniela Selloni
Changing The Negative Narrative Of Aging: A Case Study On Sexual Wellness Services For Women In Later Life, Camilla Borghi, Daniela Selloni
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The global longevity trend requires a paradigm shift in the design of services related to later life. Traditionally centered on the negative narrative of aging, service interventions have targeted sectoral domains such as assistance and healthcare. Instead, a silver society demands services for the mainstream market, addressing the desires of individuals who lead fulfilling lives at all ages. This paper examines a case study investigating sexual wellness in women's later life. Service design elevates this marginalized topic in active aging discussions to a common concern in a cultural service as output. The methodology combines ethnographic research and participatory design: it …
Facebook Data Shield: An Interactive Tangible Interface For User Data Control, Anniek Jansen, Jules Sinsel, Sara Colombo
Facebook Data Shield: An Interactive Tangible Interface For User Data Control, Anniek Jansen, Jules Sinsel, Sara Colombo
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Social media platforms like Facebook utilize AI algorithms to personalize content based on user data, raising concerns about data privacy and transparency. We introduce the Facebook Data Shield (FDS), a life-sized interactive installation that empowers users to visualize and control the data shared with the platform. We deployed FDS at a public design event, to explore user data-sharing and control preferences. We conducteded an analysis of 81 user interactions, based on data logs and surveys. Our findings reveal a preference for increased data control, particularly concerning online behavior and demographics. We identify five distinct clusters for preferred data-sharing settings, which …
Designing Through Ecological Soundscape To Foster Human-Nature Interaction, Francesca Valsecchi, Herun Chen, Qingyu Zhang
Designing Through Ecological Soundscape To Foster Human-Nature Interaction, Francesca Valsecchi, Herun Chen, Qingyu Zhang
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Sense of hearing provides an effective, immersive and empathetic way to observe, map and explore places with a more-than-human approach. In our contemporary mediascape inundated by visual stimuli, the rediscovery of sound offers a different understanding of the world. By discussing two research-based sound design projects, this study discusses 1) the potential of using soundscape as an empathetic research tool in multispecies ethnography and 2) how soundscape as a communication media could stimulate more-than-human exploration and empathy. Such design outcomes develop an empathic and conscious understanding of human-nature interaction, even in an urban context. Intersecting science, research and creative practices, …
Designing Onboarding For Wearable Payment: Connecting Passive Tangibles To Online Service, Andreas Lindegren, Victoria Hendered, Ylva Fernaeus
Designing Onboarding For Wearable Payment: Connecting Passive Tangibles To Online Service, Andreas Lindegren, Victoria Hendered, Ylva Fernaeus
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This study explores the design challenges of connecting passive NFC wearables such as fobs, rings, and bracelets, to online services such as payment and access. Through field studies, co-design workshops, and auto-ethnographic design work, we investigate how physical action and online media could be coupled, allowing for more considerate onboarding experiences. Our main contribution is four de-sign concepts specific to this domain: using media to link experience to new concepts, supporting physical practice, giving feedback on physical success, and providing interactive function through physical form. In sum, the work highlights media content as a fundamental element in the design of …
Co-Creation Framework To Develop And Situate E-Textiles With Indigenous Crafts, Chhail Khalsa, Pranshu Kumar Chaudhary
Co-Creation Framework To Develop And Situate E-Textiles With Indigenous Crafts, Chhail Khalsa, Pranshu Kumar Chaudhary
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This study is part of an ongoing project in the domain of craft and technology called Anuvad. This paper discusses the value and challenges of collaborating with traditional indigenous artisans as co-designers and technical collaborators. After establishing a premise, this paper discusses the findings of a study conducted in person with the artisans in a remote village in India called Bhujodi. This paper discusses the power of creating interactive artifacts through craft by closely collaborating with artisans. The outcome is an interactive textile art frame that works as a music synthesizer. Through this study, we tried to develop experimental e-textile …
Paradigm Shifts In Research Assessment For Scientific Publishing: Emerging Models In A Pluriverse Perspectivs, Lorela Mehmeti, Elena Maria Formia, Eleonora Lupo
Paradigm Shifts In Research Assessment For Scientific Publishing: Emerging Models In A Pluriverse Perspectivs, Lorela Mehmeti, Elena Maria Formia, Eleonora Lupo
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In the realm of design, research publication undergoes a transformative shift in evaluation and emerging forms that prompt investigation into the distortive impact of the current assessment framework on publication diversity. The complexity of assessing research quality within institutional frameworks and career metrics hinders innovation, and globally, debates on impact factors drive a shift to qualitative, responsible evaluation. The article explores how collaborative methodologies enable new assessment practices for design communities in the Global South, challenging Western-centric peer-review norms to adopt a more pluriversal perspective. It includes an introduction problematising the status of publication assessment in the general scientific domain. …
Navigating Ethics-Informed Methods At The Intersection Of Design And Philosophy Of Technology, Deger Ozkaramanli, Merlijn Smits, Maaike Harbers, Gabriele Ferri, Michael Nagenborg, Ibo Van De Poel
Navigating Ethics-Informed Methods At The Intersection Of Design And Philosophy Of Technology, Deger Ozkaramanli, Merlijn Smits, Maaike Harbers, Gabriele Ferri, Michael Nagenborg, Ibo Van De Poel
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The idea that technologies influence society—both positively and negatively—is not new. This is mainly the terrain of the philosophy and the ethics of technology research. Similarly, design research aims to help create new technologies in line with individual, social, and societal needs and values. Against this backdrop, it seems essential to expose relations between design and philosophy of technology research, particularly from a methodological perspective. The main goal of this paper is to suggest a preliminary overview of methods and approaches that can inspire and inform interdisciplinary collaboration and, with that, systematic engagement with ethics in design processes. Through interdisciplinary …
Indicators For Evaluating Service Design Inclusivity In The Healthcare Sector: A Review Of The Literature, Marco Petazzoni, Sabrina Bresciani
Indicators For Evaluating Service Design Inclusivity In The Healthcare Sector: A Review Of The Literature, Marco Petazzoni, Sabrina Bresciani
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To foster a culture of inclusive care and patients-centred solutions in the healthcare sector, being able to assess the inclusivity of services is an essential step for enhancing the design and improvement of services. What are the key indicators of inclusive service design in the healthcare sector? Based on insights from the field of the built environment, a thematic analysis of the literature on service design in the context of healthcare, psychology, and public service design is conducted. Indicators extracted from the literature are structured into four categories: physical, sensorial, cognitive, and psycho-social, and according to two phases: service design …