Cultivating Future-Oriented Responsibility In Design With Care,
2024
Illinois Institute of Technology, United States of America
Cultivating Future-Oriented Responsibility In Design With Care, Irem Tekogul, Laura Forlano
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design futures -- as a subfield and as an approach -- responds directly to the precarity and uncertainty of our present. Within this context, the notion that "there will be no future" becomes the dominant vision. This paper argues that design, as a future-making praxis, should embrace ‘care’ to be able to respond to precarity. This paper draws on feminist care ethics and the concept of ‘matters of care’ to explore the theo-retical foundations for a care-informed approach to cultivate future-oriented respon-sibility in design. Care is situated, responsive and relational, and it resists reduction to step-by-step methods or toolkits. Thus, …
Virtual Reality For Assessment Of Chronic Lower Back Pain In Physiotherapy - Task Selection, Design, And User Experience Evaluation,
2024
Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden
Virtual Reality For Assessment Of Chronic Lower Back Pain In Physiotherapy - Task Selection, Design, And User Experience Evaluation, Anders Lundström, Patrik Björnfot, William Sahlin, Hiran Herath, Lars Berglund, Edit Strömbäck
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) presents a significant challenge in healthcare, re-quiring effective tools for rehabilitation and assessment. This study explores the use of virtual reality (VR) for assessment of physical function in patients with CLBP, and investigates how movements and tasks can be designed for assessment purposes. The focus is on physiotherapists' perceptions of using VR regarding task design, feasibility, and user experience. We conducted three design workshops with physiotherapists and HCI researchers, and designed three VR applications that we evaluated with six physiotherapy students. The study provides valuable insights into participants' perceptions and highlights promising and challenging aspects …
Situated Partnerships To Face Food Waste Within A Neighborhood-Based Food Redistribution Service: The Case Of "Sospesa",
2024
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Situated Partnerships To Face Food Waste Within A Neighborhood-Based Food Redistribution Service: The Case Of "Sospesa", Davide Fassi, Valentina Ferreri
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Neighborhoods can be seen as experimental hubs where innovative design strat-egies are tested within local communities, addressing the social and environ-mental issues that impact global cities and promoting more equitable futures. In current times of crisis, amid substantial food waste, urban areas are witnessing a growing phenomenon of vulnerable groups suffering from food poverty, often coupled with limited access to fresh food. This scenario has led to a proliferation of diverse charitable initiatives, concurrently fueling researchers' exploration of sustainable food commons and circular systems. However, to foster community-driven development of such models, it becomes imperative to structure services around local, …
Should We Re-Frame Sustainable Interaction Design? Towards A More Holistic Sustainability “In Designing”,
2024
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Should We Re-Frame Sustainable Interaction Design? Towards A More Holistic Sustainability “In Designing”, Nicola Besana
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This essay presents the findings of an exploratory literature review on the evo-lution of Sustainable Interaction Design (SID). Historically, SID has referred to Blevis’s principles of "sustainability through design", related to behavioural change, and "sustainability in design" with a predominant focus on environmental sustainability. However, a significant paradigm shift in the field urges to encompass a third "sustainability in designing" dimension, related more to the design process as emphasised by scholars, now offering methodological guidelines to create sustainable interactions. The study proposes an updated frame of SID starting from its first definitions. Secondly, if environmental sustainability remains crucial, it is …
Co-Creating Pluralistic Futures: A Systematic Literature Review On Participatory Speculative Design,
2024
School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Co-Creating Pluralistic Futures: A Systematic Literature Review On Participatory Speculative Design, Yingfei Ye, Duoduo Zhang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In an increasingly uncertain future context, participatory speculative design be-come a future probe for exploring complex socio-technical issues and a diverse world. Compared to speculative design, the focus of participatory speculative de-sign shifts from artifacts to process, empowering the public through multi-stakeholder participation. Building upon future prototypes and scenarios, partic-ipants and designers co-create potential pluralistic futures, and democratize im-agination. This paper, based on a literature review of recent research in this field, outlines three practical pathways of participatory speculative design, which are characterized as "technical speculation," "social speculation," and "integrated speculation," along with seven participatory methods that can be used …
Makin'rome Living Lab. A Case Study Of Design-Driven Approach For The Development Of Urban Community-Based Projects,
2024
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Makin'rome Living Lab. A Case Study Of Design-Driven Approach For The Development Of Urban Community-Based Projects, Luca D'Elia, Lorenzo Imbesi, Sara Muscolo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designing for social innovation in urban context prompts a re-evaluation of urban sociability (dos Santos et al., 2021). This contribution delves into the outcomes of a living lab initiative that tackled the growing prevalence of urban manufacturing (Fasoli & Tassinari, 2017) in Rome's landscape. Eight laboratories have been engaged in a co-design experiment, through a systemic approach guided by a hyper-local tool offering an exemplary case study of how Design can effectively foster community building and introduce novel urban production models (Rietveld, 022). This network encompasses a blend of services, technologies, and skills, aligning with the principles of the 15-minute …
Missing The Bus: A Toolkit For Amplifying Unheard Voices Of Women Commuters In India,
2024
School of Design, Doon University, India
Missing The Bus: A Toolkit For Amplifying Unheard Voices Of Women Commuters In India, Dhriti Dhaundiyal, Nishant Sharma
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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 …
Revealing User Tacit Knowledge: Generative-Image-Ai Helps Create Better Design Conversation,
2024
School of Design, Hunan university, China
Revealing User Tacit Knowledge: Generative-Image-Ai Helps Create Better Design Conversation, Wenhui He, Yi Xiao, Yu Xie
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In new product development, engaging users in co-creation provides valuable opportunities for innovation by uncovering their latent needs. However, user knowledge is often tacit and difficult to express. This study considers Generative-Image-AI as a tool to facilitate communication between users and designers, and explores how it intervenes in the design process to facilitate meaningful design conversations. We proposed the conceptual design iteration process model for Generative-Image-AI intervention in the product conceptual design phase and conducted a workshop with six designer-user dyads. The results demonstrated the positive impact of Generative-Image-AI on design conversations by fostering continuous communication, expanding possibilities, and encouraging …
Toward Mutual Understanding: Constructing The Designer-Developer Collaboration In Designing Gesture Interaction,
2024
School of Design, Hunan University
Toward Mutual Understanding: Constructing The Designer-Developer Collaboration In Designing Gesture Interaction, Yijing Yang, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang, Qi Chen, Le Du
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In design-driven research and development projects, one of the biggest challenges is to make the different roles speak the same language. In this paper, along with a real project concerning the UX enhancement of smartphone touch-based gestures, we found designers and developers possessed their familiar skills and tools, but lacked understanding of each other's work, especially when designers encountered developers' work. Therefore, we propose the 5Fs model, elucidating how touch-based gesture interaction is constructed through different roles' involvement. The 5Fs layer was identified, relating work content to UX, including Hardware Feature, Coding Frame, Function Matching, Visual Feedforward, and Modal Feedback. …
Designing New Phygital Service Experiences For Hospitality,
2024
Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Designing New Phygital Service Experiences For Hospitality, Päivi Hanni-Vaara, Minni Haanpää, Satu Miettinen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This qualitative case study explores the blending of physical and digital as phygital experience at the Rovaniemi Local Heritage Museum in the very specific context of periferal Arctic Lapland. The case study builds on participatory design and provides findings and discussions on how to utilize mobile head-mounted eye tracking sensor technology and empathy map as methods in researching phygital customer experiences during the tourism customer journeys in peripheral, remotely situated micro and small-scale organisations. The findings provide tourism, service and experience design researchers, developers, and service providers with relevant information about the future challenge of phygital touchpoint design. The case …
A Study Of Student’S Learning Experience Impacted By Using Aigc Tools In Design Subjects In China,
2024
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
A Study Of Student’S Learning Experience Impacted By Using Aigc Tools In Design Subjects In China, Yating Li, Henry Ma, Deyang Zhao
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper presents a qualitative study that investigates the impact of using AI-generated content (AIGC) tools on the learning experiences of design students in China. Nine bachelor students who were encouraged to use AIGC tools in their design projects participated in the study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and observation and analyzed by thematic analysis. The findings highlight the impact of AIGC tools on the efficiency and effectiveness of the students’ design process and their acquisition of domain and transferable knowledge. The result shows the impacts of AIGC are perceived as either conveniences or problems. Students' attitudes …
Leveraging Llms For Reflection ��: Approaches To Mitigate Assumptions Within The Design Process,
2024
University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Leveraging Llms For Reflection ��: Approaches To Mitigate Assumptions Within The Design Process, Niklas Muhs, Aeneas Stankowski
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In an increasingly complex landscape, designers grapple with unprecedented uncertainty, often exacerbated by inherent biases and implicit assumptions. Utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), our formative study introduces "Anticipate," a tool designed to interrogate these hidden presumptions and mitigate uncertainty. A subsequent study demonstrates that LLMs can critically challenge design ideas, elucidate underlying thought patterns, and expose biases, thereby preempting undesirable outcomes. Importantly, we employ specific input framing techniques to minimize the risk of LLM-induced biases and hallucinations in decision-making. Collectively, these methodologies aim to attenuate both designer and algorithmic biases, thereby mitigating the perpetuation of adverse societal trends.
A Case Study Into The Role Of Bodily Expertise In Somatic Design Ideation,
2024
Departmment of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
A Case Study Into The Role Of Bodily Expertise In Somatic Design Ideation, Yeup Hur, Liz Van Der Jagt, Geert Boer, Tyana Hendriksma, Els Van Raaij, Panos Markopoulos
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Research in tangible and embodied interaction design highlights the critical role of the human body and its movement. Various studies have explored the importance of bodily awareness (Hummels, 2007) and have further encouraged de-signers to cultivate subjective bodily skills (Schiphorst, 2011) to support and enhance design practices. These bodily considerations have led to methodological approaches, such as body storming (Schleicher, 2010), to a more holistic approach like Soma Design (Höök, 2018), emphasising the importance of bodily understanding. This paper examines the characteristics of experienced bodily movers and their potential contributions to the design ideation process. We also explore how these …
Landscape Of Agency Of Objects In Public Space: A Collective Expression,
2024
Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye
Landscape Of Agency Of Objects In Public Space: A Collective Expression, Cigdem Kaya
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In this research human relationships with objects were traced through 25 participant documentations in 7 different cities. 25 different participant documentation portray the variety of the experiences emerging around objects in public space. The textual part of participants’ documentation was analyzed with thematic analysis. With thematic analysis, new themes were identified. This new themes illustrate a landscape of the agency of objects in public space. I asked participants to report a personal account of an everyday object in public space with text and photography. The collected material consisting of texts and photographs were analysed with thematic analysis inspired by grounded …
Strategic Design: The Integration Of The Two Fields Of Strategy And Design,
2024
Stanford University, United States of America
Strategic Design: The Integration Of The Two Fields Of Strategy And Design, Jan Michel Auernhammer
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This article outlines the evolution of Design in Strategy and Strategy in Design and discusses the differences and similarities. The examination of the evolutions revealed three different perspectives on integrating Strategy and Design in both fields. The article provides a nuanced understanding of Strategic Design by purposefully establishing the vocabulary of each perspective. The first perspective is a planning practice containing strategic tools and design methods to create conceptual plans. The second perspective is a learning practice through collective reflection from intent and action. The last perspective is the enablement of a comprehensive design practice in which tangible design and …
Mapping The Evolution Of Design Research: A Data-Driven Analysis Of Interdisciplinary Trends And Intellectual Landscape,
2024
Dipartimento Architettura e Design, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
Mapping The Evolution Of Design Research: A Data-Driven Analysis Of Interdisciplinary Trends And Intellectual Landscape, Andrea Vian, Gianluca Carella, Daniele Pretolesi, Annalisa Barla, Francesco Zurlo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Due to its interdisciplinary nature, research in design, more so than other disciplines, has to develop self-awareness to adapt to the inherent complexity of the contemporary world. This requires the use of big data as comprehensive self-descriptors, along with tools borrowed from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate knowledge that researchers in this field can integrate with their own expertise to guide their research activities. We consider a large-scale set of about 170000 design-related scientific publications and leverage natural language processing, machine learning, and data visualization to explore and capture the evolution of the design community. We identify …
Transition Towards Automatic Passenger Boarding Bridge: Themes Of Task Delegation For Autonomous Airport Operations,
2024
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Transition Towards Automatic Passenger Boarding Bridge: Themes Of Task Delegation For Autonomous Airport Operations, Jeongha Joo, Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain, Euiyoung Kim, Himanshu Verma
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Automation technology can bring numerous benefits to manual labor in organizations. However, in practice, disentangling how the evolving automated systems will transform human roles remains challenging, necessitating further exploration of task delegation regarding which tasks can (or can’t) be delegated to automated systems. Building on prior research, our study investigates the perspectives of operators and decision-makers involved in automation projects, specifically focusing on Passenger Boarding Bridges in airport airside operations. By conducting six in-depth interviews, we identified twelve themes that emerged across four dimensions, highlighting practical considerations for task delegation between humans and automated systems. The empirical findings indicate that …
The Heritage Language And Graphic Landscape Of London's Chinatown,
2024
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
The Heritage Language And Graphic Landscape Of London's Chinatown, Robert George Harland, Angelina Hang Pan, Alison Barnes
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The preservation of minority heritage through language is widely recognised as an important means for safeguarding ethnic identity within multicultural settings. This paper investigates the visibility of "heritage language" through the lens of graphic heritage within the distinctive ethnic enclave of London's Chinatown. Located in the City of Westminster, Chinese identity is officially designated on street nameplates that demarcate geographic boundaries as well as depict a shift in the cultural influence of this migrant community. In this study, the visual analysis of 209 retail signs displays 313 instances of language. The research findings indicate the extent of retention of heritage …
Prospective Design: A Structuralist Design Aesthetic Founded On Relational Qualities,
2024
UTFPR Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana, Brazil
Prospective Design: A Structuralist Design Aesthetic Founded On Relational Qualities, Fernanda Botter, Frederick M. C. Van Amstel, Marco André Mazzarotto Filho, Cayley Guimarães
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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, …
Knotting Data As A Feminist Approach To Data Materialization,
2024
Digital Design Department, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Knotting Data As A Feminist Approach To Data Materialization, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Lara Reime, Marisa Cohn, Tania Pérez-Bustos
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Several researchers have been studying how working with materials such as yarn can shift how we think and theorize relations to the body and others, by bringing together feminist values at the intersection of data, technology, and hands-on making. Extending such prior work, our research, anchored in craft-based knowledge production, aims to contribute with explorations on knotting as a feminist approach to data materialization. We present a year-long process consisting of 4 workshops we conducted with participants, in which we used differ-ent forms of knotting to materialize data about bodies being part of our academic institution and the Covid-19 pandemic. …
