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Trauma-Informed Research And Planning: Understanding Government And Urban Native Community Partnerships To Addressing Substance-Exposed Pregnancies In Portland, Or, Amanda Mercier Jun 2014

Trauma-Informed Research And Planning: Understanding Government And Urban Native Community Partnerships To Addressing Substance-Exposed Pregnancies In Portland, Or, Amanda Mercier

Dissertations and Theses

In 2011, representatives from the Multnomah County Health Departments and several Native-serving organizations came together to address substance-exposed pregnancies among urban Native Americans in Portland, Oregon. From these partnerships, the Future Generations Collaborative was formed representing a significant shift toward community-led maternal child health research and planning. Additionally, the Future Generations Collaborative adopted a historical trauma-informed community based participatory research and planning process. This is particularly significant considering government agencies' role in colonization within Native communities. The purpose of this case study is to explore partnerships between government agencies and the Portland Native community within the Future Generations Collaborative. Given …

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Dan Subotnik, Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, And Law Talk In America, Hannah Abrams Jun 2014

Dan Subotnik, Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, And Law Talk In America, Hannah Abrams

Touro Law Review

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The Qmra Wiki: A Social Media Tool For Interdisciplinary And Interagency Collaboration For Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment, Jade Mitchell, Mark H. Weir, Wietske Van Osch, Joan Rose Jun 2014

The Qmra Wiki: A Social Media Tool For Interdisciplinary And Interagency Collaboration For Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment, Jade Mitchell, Mark H. Weir, Wietske Van Osch, Joan Rose

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This study presents a web-based social media system that supports quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) and collaboration among interdisciplinary scientists and interagency stakeholders, namely the QMRA wiki. The QMRA wiki is intended to aid the development of risk assessments by providing a collection of raw data, models and calculators as well as a platform for exchange and cross-fertilization between the QMRA community and its stakeholders. The wiki is organized around the exploration of the QMRA paradigm including the following five components: hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, risk characterization and risk management. Additionally, the wiki houses a number of case …

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Cases And Materials On Trusts And Estates (Book Review), Edward J. O'Toole Jun 2014

Cases And Materials On Trusts And Estates (Book Review), Edward J. O'Toole

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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A Study In Chaining The Chain Stores, William H. Shapiro Jun 2014

A Study In Chaining The Chain Stores, William H. Shapiro

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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A Forward Step In Labor Regulation, George F. L. Hentz Jun 2014

A Forward Step In Labor Regulation, George F. L. Hentz

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Legal Aid Clinic: Training For The Art Of Law Practice, John S. Bradway Jun 2014

Legal Aid Clinic: Training For The Art Of Law Practice, John S. Bradway

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Proposed Changes In The New York Rule Against Perpetuities, Franklin F. Russell Jun 2014

Proposed Changes In The New York Rule Against Perpetuities, Franklin F. Russell

St. John's Law Review

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The Reappearing Computer: The Past And Future Of Computing In Design Research, Simone Gristwood, Stephen Boyd Davis Jun 2014

The Reappearing Computer: The Past And Future Of Computing In Design Research, Simone Gristwood, Stephen Boyd Davis

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper investigates the early history of computing in design and in design research, focusing on individuals who were associated with the Department of Design Research at the Royal College of Art between the 1960s and the 1980s. The authors suggest that the theory and practice developed at that time may be valuable in thinking about the future, particularly when considering how computing may be used, in various forms, by designers in their work. A taxonomy of some early ideas and activities is presented which, it is suggested, displays a different emphasis from the way computing in design is conceived …

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X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes, Tom Miller Jun 2014

X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes, Tom Miller

The Goose

A review of Shane Rhodes' X: Poems & Anti-Poems. This review focuses on the link between language and landscape, and considers the ways in which that link, reflected in Rhodes' work, comments upon the use of language as an oppressive tool in the treatment of Native Americans and Canadians.

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Experience Design Framework For Securing Large Scale Information And Communication Systems, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Omar Sosa-Tzec Jun 2014

Experience Design Framework For Securing Large Scale Information And Communication Systems, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Omar Sosa-Tzec

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Securing Information and Communication Systems (ICSs) is a highly complex process due in large part to the feedback relationship that holds between the users and the system and its ‘ecosystem’ of usage. Such a relationship is critical for experience designers. The design of secure systems can thereby be enhanced by using principles from disciplines where similar relations hold, such as security engineering and adaptive systems. In this work, we propose a user experience design framework based on six principles and use a social networking system as an example of its application. The proposed design principles are grounded in complex systems …

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Examining Intuitive Navigation In Airports, Andrew Cave, Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal Jun 2014

Examining Intuitive Navigation In Airports, Andrew Cave, Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Airports accommodate passengers with a range of prior experience, from frequent flyers, to passengers who fly every couple of years, to those who have never flown before. Passengers with varying levels of prior experience may use different visual elements when navigating the airport. Ensuring all passengers can navigate to the processing activities intuitively is important for passengers, airports and airlines. This paper examines how participants with Low, Medium and High airport familiarity navigate through the departures area at an Australian international airport. Three navigation activities are investigated (i) navigating to the check-in row, (ii) navigating through the Liquids, Aerosols and …

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A Design Process Based On Field Research: An Adjustable Desk For Children In Rural India, Youngchan Jeong, Sumi Kim, Joongseek Lee Jun 2014

A Design Process Based On Field Research: An Adjustable Desk For Children In Rural India, Youngchan Jeong, Sumi Kim, Joongseek Lee

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Learning is an essential element for social, cultural, and economic growth in developing countries. Effective learning requires education materials like desks, books, and writing instruments. However, most students in developing countries do not have sufficient access to these basic materials. This research examines desk designs for children in developing countries that are having trouble in learning due to lacking education materials. We conducted field research in the West Bengal region of India over the past three years. The study was performed using human centered design (HCD) toolkit developed by IDEO. Because entire families were living together in a single small …

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Making The Case: Collaborative Concept Development Of Products And Services For A New Design Museum, Louise Valentine, Joanna Bletcher, Saskia Coulson Jun 2014

Making The Case: Collaborative Concept Development Of Products And Services For A New Design Museum, Louise Valentine, Joanna Bletcher, Saskia Coulson

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper describes the role practice-­‐led research has played in identifying an opportunity for innovative organizational progress (for a globally recognized museum), and discusses one role of practice-­‐led research in product and service development for the new business. It looks at why collaborative research is employed to explore concept development, how this is being investigated and what the insights thus far indicate. Two projects are discussed, one in the area of curatorial practice for communicating design and craft innovation and, the other in the design of residency programmes in terms of nurturing innovation in design and craft practices. The design …

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What Can Urbanism Be? Problematizing The Design Of Cities, Aseem Inam Jun 2014

What Can Urbanism Be? Problematizing The Design Of Cities, Aseem Inam

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, I highlight a number of different ways of defining and describing the field conventionally known as urban design, which I problematize by broadening, deepening, and calling urbanism and which I re-define as city-design-and-building processes and their spatial products. These ways include morphological definitions, as a default focus, as the keeper of the public realm, through lists of categories, as a map of bodies of knowledge, as a field of research, as different modes of practice, via models for understanding and making cities, and practical “how-to” approaches such as best practices. I describe and critique each of these …

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Designing For Democracy: Using Design Activism To Renegotiate The Roles And Rights For Patients, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Signe Mårbjerg Thomsen, Jette Ammentorp Jun 2014

Designing For Democracy: Using Design Activism To Renegotiate The Roles And Rights For Patients, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Signe Mårbjerg Thomsen, Jette Ammentorp

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper we focus on ‘patient-democracy’ and ‘shared decision-making’ seen from the perspective of design practice and design research. In the research on democracy in healthcare it is rarely questioned what forms of democracy underlies these concepts. We have examined three different theories of democracy and the democratic practices that belong to each of these. For designers working to increase patient democracy it is of vital importance to be able to distinguish different structures underlying democratic practices and to work out methods for prototyping democracy. In design research there are already a number of approaches available which in one …

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Agency, Context And Meaning: The Humanities And Design, Mads Nygaard Folkmann Jun 2014

Agency, Context And Meaning: The Humanities And Design, Mads Nygaard Folkmann

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper is a meta-discursive contribution to the discussion of how design can be understood as a medium of meaning formation and the questioning of meaning. Further, the paper makes a plea for the role of the humanities in formulating relevant questions in design through a conceptualization of the nature and scope of design. Three fundamental approaches to understanding design from the perspective of the humanities will be proposed: 1) The question of agency in design, i.e. what the role and agency of design can be conceived as in human life, which can be addressed in the historical perspective of …

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Matrix Method: Looking As Generator For Creativity, Thierry Lagrange Jun 2014

Matrix Method: Looking As Generator For Creativity, Thierry Lagrange

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The central theme of the research project presented in this paper is the act of looking at the way a person is looking. An essential part of this investigation concerns the development of a creative method; the Matrix Method. This method makes use of ‘matrices’ as tools to generate experiences and creative ideas by using the look as a layered way of acting. With this method we develop tools for collaboration, so that people can solve the types of problems that are characteristic of their domain or discipline. This might be architectural design, but we have also tackled communication, acting …

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How To Interest People For The Hare Instead Of The Chase, An Exploration Of Open Script Design To Change Consumer Behaviour, Liesbeth Stam, Wouter Eggink Jun 2014

How To Interest People For The Hare Instead Of The Chase, An Exploration Of Open Script Design To Change Consumer Behaviour, Liesbeth Stam, Wouter Eggink

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper we raise the question: does our consumer behaviour make us happy? The infinite source of consumer desires seems to be the justification of an ever increasing amount of products that inundate our lives. Consumption itself is set free from any functional bond, bringing our current consumption levels to the point that it is ecologically destructive and unsustainable. By examining philosophical theories of well-being we argue that consumer satisfaction does not of necessity lead to happiness, and we reach the conclusion that it is in the act of appropriation -fitting the acquired artefacts into our lives- that consumption …

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Incorporating Queer Understandings Of Sex And Gender In Design Research And Practice, Isabel Prochner Jun 2014

Incorporating Queer Understandings Of Sex And Gender In Design Research And Practice, Isabel Prochner

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper presents lessons to better incorporate queer understandings of sex and gender in design research and practice. There is much discussion in design literature about how sex and gender are interpreted and attributed in the design process and end products. Discussions revolve around attention toward female and male bodies, and stereotypes of femininity and masculinity. Nevertheless, this work rarely adopts queer understandings of sex and gender, or considers the experiences and identities of queer users. This prevents design research and practice from properly addressing social sustainability imperatives. Project results are based on a multi-part literature review and analysis, focused …

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Altering Expectations: How Design Fictions And Backcasting Can Leverage Sustainable Lifestyles, Sara Ilstedt, Josefin Wangel Jun 2014

Altering Expectations: How Design Fictions And Backcasting Can Leverage Sustainable Lifestyles, Sara Ilstedt, Josefin Wangel

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Sustainable development calls for fundamental societal changes. Technological development alone won’t suffice; in order to reach sustainable development objectives there is a need to rethink the way we live our lives. Sustainable lifestyles are today however often depicted through a sacrifice-based cultural narrative, in which losses, rather than gains stand in focus. The paper takes its starting point in recognizing that the future is open and possible to influence, but also that (ideas about) the future influences present decisions. These ideas, or expectations, about the future thus provide an opportunity for intervention. Through presenting concrete and positive representations of what …

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Users, Stakeholders And Researchers: Dilemmas Of Research As Practice And The Role Of Design Thinking In The Case Study Of A Rehabilitation Living Lab, Tiiu Poldma, Delphine Labbé, Sylvain Bertin, Eva Kehayia, Bonnie Swaine, Sara Ahmed, Guylaine Le Dorze, Joyce Fung, Philippe Archambault, Anouk Lamontagne, Dahlia Kairy Jun 2014

Users, Stakeholders And Researchers: Dilemmas Of Research As Practice And The Role Of Design Thinking In The Case Study Of A Rehabilitation Living Lab, Tiiu Poldma, Delphine Labbé, Sylvain Bertin, Eva Kehayia, Bonnie Swaine, Sara Ahmed, Guylaine Le Dorze, Joyce Fung, Philippe Archambault, Anouk Lamontagne, Dahlia Kairy

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Through the lens of a Rehabilitation Living Lab, this paper presents what happens when researchers work with managers and users in the design situation of an urban commercial complex. This multi-sectorial and interdisciplinary research project brings together over 45 researchers to explore issues of social inclusion and social participation of people with disabilities, as they arrive and use the shopping complex. Within the context of a Living Lab, researchers implement various research projects from diverse research paradigms and methodological perspectives. While the research method for the overarching project is within the general framework of participatory action research, all researchers use …

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Deconstructing Expected Passenger Experience In Aiports, Philip J Kirk, Anna Harrison, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal Jun 2014

Deconstructing Expected Passenger Experience In Aiports, Philip J Kirk, Anna Harrison, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The effect of passenger satisfaction on airport profitability has been widely acknowledged in the aviation industry. As a result, there has been much attention directed towards developing a deeper understanding of the factors that influence the passenger experience. In this paper, we explore passenger experience from a novel perspective - that of the activities expected to be undertaken by passengers while in the airport terminal building. Using the Taxonomy of Passenger Experience (TOPA) as our framework, we look at the pre-travel interview data of 48 participants. The results of our analysis are used to construct an activity-centred account of the …

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Archaeology Of The Future Reconsidering The Place And Nature Of Trend Forecasting In Design Discourse, Elisabeth Petermann Jun 2014

Archaeology Of The Future Reconsidering The Place And Nature Of Trend Forecasting In Design Discourse, Elisabeth Petermann

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper examines the place of trend forecasting in current design debates concerning the varying notion of design being a change agent and crafting the future, in order to point to a limited understanding of trend forecasting within these debates. Moreover, the paper indicates research gaps in the rare examinations of the phenomenon of trend forecasting. It is almost as if trend forecasting is an invisible force and an intangible phenomenon. Its directive power remains unrecognized and therefore under-conceptualized in design discourse. The practice is considered as commercial and thus unworthy for academic attention. Therefore this paper illustrates briefly the …

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Communication Design As An Agent In Creating Gender Equality In India, Nicola St John Jun 2014

Communication Design As An Agent In Creating Gender Equality In India, Nicola St John

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Developing from the field of behavior change through design, this study investigated if communication design is an effective tool in changing cultural behaviors and perceptions of gender in India. Previous studies on gender violence campaigns (Gadornski, 2001; Murphy, 2009; Kostick et al., 2011) suggest utilising men and traditional gender stereotypes are effective in creating behavior change. Yet there exists a gap on specific cultural roles and changing ingrained behaviors. This study focuses on the necessary recognition of cultural traditions and behaviours that must precede any design activity within an epistemological setting. Developing communication strategy within sensitive and complex social issues …

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Social Implication Design (Sid) – A Design Method To Exploit The Unique Value Of The Artefact To Counteract Social Problems, Nynke Tromp, Paul Hekkert Jun 2014

Social Implication Design (Sid) – A Design Method To Exploit The Unique Value Of The Artefact To Counteract Social Problems, Nynke Tromp, Paul Hekkert

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The role of design in changing people’s behaviour and causing social implications has been referred to as an inherent aspect of design. In taking responsibility for this influence of design, emphasis is often placed on the prevention of undesired consequences rather than the realization of desired ones. Little research exists on how to exploit this implicit yet inevitable role of design in the social realm. This paper presents the development of a method to help designers in exploiting this influence of design to realize social benefit. We explain how design is part of the ‘choice architecture’ in social dilemmas and …

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Space-And-Place Modelling-And-Making: A Dialogue Between Design And Geography, Robert Harland, Maria Loschiavo Dos Santos Jun 2014

Space-And-Place Modelling-And-Making: A Dialogue Between Design And Geography, Robert Harland, Maria Loschiavo Dos Santos

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Geography and design have much in common. Both draw from or reflect science, social science, humanities, and employ sophisticated technology to achieve their aims. However, aside from a mutual interest in urbanism, there appears to have be little collaboration between the two. And yet some aspire for design to learn from geography. In this paper we explore how the characteristics associated with geography and design may function together in a space-and-place modelling-and-making dialectic.

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The Use Of Grounded Theory In User Experience Based Design Research: A Study On "Automobile Modification" In Turkey, Selen Devrim Ülkebaş Jun 2014

The Use Of Grounded Theory In User Experience Based Design Research: A Study On "Automobile Modification" In Turkey, Selen Devrim Ülkebaş

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In today’s so called post-industrial societies, increasing influence of the symbolic use of object overwhelmingly dominates the relationship between human and object. As objects have become an important part of individual’s social and psychological world, qualitative research approaches aiming to gather a deep understanding of human behavior and experiences have gained importance not only in the disciplines of social sciences but also in design related disciplines. Grounded Theory is one of the qualitative research approaches aiming to discover and uncover the experiences and interactions of people "grounded" in everyday life practices and generate theories regarding social phenomena. Although Grounded theory …

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Privilege And Oppression: Towards A Feminist Speculative Design, Luiza Prado De O. Martins Jun 2014

Privilege And Oppression: Towards A Feminist Speculative Design, Luiza Prado De O. Martins

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Though critical and speculative design have been increasingly relevant in discussing the social and cultural role of design, there has been a distinct lack of both theory and praxis aimed at questioning gender oppression. Departing from an intersectional feminist analysis of the influences and origins of speculative and critical design, this essay questions the underlying privilege that has been hindering the discussion on gender within the discipline and its role in propagating oppression; it then goes on to propose the concept of a “feminist speculative design” as an approach aimed at questioning the complex relationships between gender, technology and social …

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Design Effectiveness: Building Customer Satisfaction And Loyalty Through Design, Ki Woong Nam, Bruce W. Carnie Jun 2014

Design Effectiveness: Building Customer Satisfaction And Loyalty Through Design, Ki Woong Nam, Bruce W. Carnie

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The contribution of design is regarded as one of the most crucial factors in business. However, there remains ambiguity about how design affects the building of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Furthermore, in terms of any business situation, the output of design efforts and investment should arguably be greater than management expect in order to be recognised as a worthy investment. This paper presents a novel combined conceptual framework of the design audit and value typology. By employing design embedded business theories, design value can be both assessed. Taking Freeman’s stakeholder theory and conflating this with Holbrook’s typology of value, a …

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