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Reimagining Care Through Evidence: Design Research, Patient Centered Solutions, And A Culture Of Care For Healthy Societies, Diana Susan Nicholas, Minou Afzali, Ajla Aksamija, Nora Coleman, Angela Mazzi, Elizabeth Sanders, Isil Oygur Ilhan Jun 2024

Reimagining Care Through Evidence: Design Research, Patient Centered Solutions, And A Culture Of Care For Healthy Societies, Diana Susan Nicholas, Minou Afzali, Ajla Aksamija, Nora Coleman, Angela Mazzi, Elizabeth Sanders, Isil Oygur Ilhan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This session will explore patient centered evidence based design in healthcare, as a model of recovery, resistance, reflection, and reimagination. We are particularly interested in works of practice, scholarship, and research that put patients at the center of their care. Central to this session will be practices that invoke a culture of care and health both for patients and those that are caregivers (Evan & Fischer, 2022; Fuentes, 2020; Lightburn et al., 2005; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2020) Culture of care is a form of reimagination that calls on all actions to put care at their center for those in …

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Design For Wellbeing And Happiness, Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Ann Petermans, Rebecca Cain, Anna Pohlmeyer, Tiiu Poldma, Deger Ozkaramanli, Pieter Desmet, Matthias Laschke, Marc Hassenzahl Jun 2024

Design For Wellbeing And Happiness, Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Ann Petermans, Rebecca Cain, Anna Pohlmeyer, Tiiu Poldma, Deger Ozkaramanli, Pieter Desmet, Matthias Laschke, Marc Hassenzahl

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The influence of design on wellbeing and happiness is a subject of growing research across various design domains, including products, services, systems, and environments. However, a challenge remains in grounding research on solid theories and methods that can unveil how design impacts people's wellbeing, enabling evidence-based approaches to design. This theme track focuses on contributions from design in fulfilling the societal need to promote wellbeing and happiness, aligned with the conference theme: Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination. The conference encourages us to expand our design horizons by reflecting on how the world is challenging the prevailing focus of design, which is …

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Resisting, Recovering, Reflecting, And Reimagining Design Education, James Corazzo, Violeta Clemente, Derek Jones, Nicole Lotz, Naureen Mumtaz, Lesley-Ann Noel Jun 2024

Resisting, Recovering, Reflecting, And Reimagining Design Education, James Corazzo, Violeta Clemente, Derek Jones, Nicole Lotz, Naureen Mumtaz, Lesley-Ann Noel

DRS Biennial Conference Series

New, ongoing, and unremitting urgencies are aggregating at a furious rate – climate, inequality, populism, poverty, artificial intelligence, and unchecked capitalism. This uncertainty is daunting, but as bell hooks reminds us, “[t]he classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility” (1994: 207). The DRS EdSIG invites contributions that explore design education and its limitations and possibilities in the following ways: Resisting Education / The Education of Resistance What forms of design education should be resisted? How has design education been complicit in supporting existing orders? / What does it mean to educate future designers and design researchers for …

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Making In The Digital Era, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth Jun 2024

Making In The Digital Era, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth

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Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group (EKSIG) focusses on the understanding of ‘knowledge’ and ‘contribution to knowledge’ in design research, especially in the areas where designing forms part of the research process. The EKSIG strand at DRS2024 takes a closer look at the new and changing materiality of design practice that we, designers, face, due to digitalization and its challenges and benefits. Several areas of design practice and research involve processes of making things. More often such processes unfold in a hybrid form combining both making by hand and with tools, both analogue and digital. This year’s EKSIG strand focusses on …

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Co-Design Towards Positive Change, Gubing Wang, Haiou Zhu Jun 2024

Co-Design Towards Positive Change, Gubing Wang, Haiou Zhu

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Founded in 2014, the Design for Behavior Change Group (now the Designing Change Group) has been promoting knowledge, understanding and actions on how to initiate and maintain positive societal change for the wellbeing of mankind and the planet. Its research focuses on leveraging design to facilitate ethical and responsible behavioral, organisational and societal changes in pursuit of these objectives. Co-design, by actively engaging end-users and other key stakeholders in the design process, offers a promising approach to creating more effective and responsible change interventions. The current strand for DRS2024 explores theories and empirical cases that adopt or reflect co-design on …

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Designing For Just And Sustainable Policies In The Space Between Institutions And Experimental Government Practices, Francesco Leoni, Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez, Sofía Bosch Gómez, Federico Vaz, Luis Garcia, Natalia Villaman Jun 2024

Designing For Just And Sustainable Policies In The Space Between Institutions And Experimental Government Practices, Francesco Leoni, Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez, Sofía Bosch Gómez, Federico Vaz, Luis Garcia, Natalia Villaman

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This track explores design’s role in the making of public policy by examining how it bridges the gap between actors within and outside institutions. Papers for this track advance new knowledge on design's contribution and interplay with policymaking processes and practices through methodological diversity and detailed descriptions of different policy contexts. The contributions discuss specific public initiatives, such as the New European Bauhaus, and general approaches to public sector innovation, like public sector innovation labs, thus ranging from highly contextualized to general views. Further, the works presented expand “design for policy” with perspectives emphasizing co-design, public service design, public organizations' …

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Design Sketching And Visualization, Futures & Research, Bryan Howell, Janwillem Hofftjzer, Mauricio Novoa Munoz Jun 2024

Design Sketching And Visualization, Futures & Research, Bryan Howell, Janwillem Hofftjzer, Mauricio Novoa Munoz

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design sketching in analogue, tablet, and immersive technologies, combined with artificial intelligence, is rapidly evolving and is primed for reinterpretation and further contextualisation. Discussions about analogue and digital sketching, live and online education, traditional and emerging visual contexts, generative and explanatory visual knowledge, emerging technology and methods, and the visual power and speed of sketching with artificial intelligence have seeded the ground to reassess our relationships with the role of sketching, and visual knowledge. The “Design Sketching and Visualization, Futures & Research” track welcomes visual or written research papers from industry professionals and academics on three topics: 1- Analogue and …

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Designing Resilient Food Futures: Food Commons, Transitions, And Sovereignty, Chun Zheng, Francis Carter Jun 2024

Designing Resilient Food Futures: Food Commons, Transitions, And Sovereignty, Chun Zheng, Francis Carter

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design researchers and practitioners, please join us to explore the transformative potential of design in shaping sustainable and equitable food futures! In the face of pressing challenges within our current food systems, including waste, resource depletion, inequitable access, and cultural erosion, conventional and commodified food models have demonstrated their inadequacy. However, the rise of food-based movements like food commons, food transitions, and food sovereignty has sparked a renaissance in the design community, inspiring a collective commitment to co-creating resilient and regenerative global food landscapes. Food commons, transitions, and sovereignty encompass community and cultural-based knowledge of food resources, production, management, systematic …

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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 Jun 2024

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

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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 …

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How Do You Sound Design? Articulating Experiences And Cultures Via Listening, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan, Daniel Hug, Sara Lenzi, Sandra Pauletto, Davide Rocchesso, Simone Spagnol Jun 2024

How Do You Sound Design? Articulating Experiences And Cultures Via Listening, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan, Daniel Hug, Sara Lenzi, Sandra Pauletto, Davide Rocchesso, Simone Spagnol

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The SIG on Sound-Driven Design invites researchers and practitioners to delve into the multifaceted nature of sound, unraveling its physical, perceptual, emotional, and socio-technological dimensions, and contribute to the discovery and development of design methods and tools. In the sound-driven perspective, listening emerges as element that adds depth and richness to the design space, adding to the role of the senses in the experience of the form quality of products, services, and systems. We propose to reflect on the holistic and inclusive character of “sound-driven” as it combines the diverse sonic, experiential, technical, and cultural manifestations of sound with the …

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Pluriversal Design As A Paradigm, Renata M. Leitao, Lesley-Ann Noel, Maria Rogal, Nicholas B. Torretta, Juan Montalvan, Sucharita Beniwal, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Dimeji Onafuwa, Maria Cristina Ibarra Jun 2024

Pluriversal Design As A Paradigm, Renata M. Leitao, Lesley-Ann Noel, Maria Rogal, Nicholas B. Torretta, Juan Montalvan, Sucharita Beniwal, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Dimeji Onafuwa, Maria Cristina Ibarra

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The concept of the Pluriverse refers to a world where many worlds fit. But what is pluriversal design? While it has been used as a synonym for initiatives around diversity, equity, and inclusion, this track argues that pluriversal frameworks represent a distinct paradigm — in contrast with the universal design paradigm. These two paradigms, while important in their own right, deal with diversity and plurality in fundamentally different ways. The term ‘universal’ is grounded in the belief that we all live in one single world, with one right (or “developed”) way to live, with a dominant narrative in which the …

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Data As Design Research: Mediating Processes, Protocols, And Precedent In Practice, Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, Andrew Witt Jun 2024

Data As Design Research: Mediating Processes, Protocols, And Precedent In Practice, Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, Andrew Witt

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The theme aims to consider the evolution of design methods, processes, and outputs in relationship to the imperatives of data in design practice, and the ways in which data-integrated practices are changing the nature of design itself. The increasing availability of data and related processes due to networked artifacts, artificial intelligence, and cultural digitalization pose a significant paradigm shift for design methods, collaboration, and the scalable impact of design in the world. Discourse may consider the fact that the systematic nature of data structures pushes related design pursuits into a realm of scalable systems that exceeds the replicability of industrial …

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What In The World Do We Hear? Understanding Public And Private Spaces Through Soundai, Sara Lenzi, Elif Özcan, Simone Mora, Martina Mazzarello, Aase Haatveit, Fabio Duarte Jun 2024

What In The World Do We Hear? Understanding Public And Private Spaces Through Soundai, Sara Lenzi, Elif Özcan, Simone Mora, Martina Mazzarello, Aase Haatveit, Fabio Duarte

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper reports on the Lab that the authors conducted during the DRS2024 conference. Through novel concepts of "Auditory Footprint," the authors aimed at exploring and highlighting the perceptual and ecological dimensions of sound events in both private and public spaces. During the DRS2024 Lab, multidisciplinary experts explored AI’s capacity to interpret and influence human interactions with soundscapes, proposing speculative-use cases, and addressing challenges such as subjective perception, equitable data collection, and ethical considerations. The findings advocate for a responsible integration of SoundAI technologies, aiming to foster accessibility, environmental awareness, and community well-being, while mitigating risks. Future work will formalize …

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Designing A Recovery Playbook For Muslim Americans Experiencing Substance Use Disorders, Firaz Peer, Shamin Shoomali Jun 2024

Designing A Recovery Playbook For Muslim Americans Experiencing Substance Use Disorders, Firaz Peer, Shamin Shoomali

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Substance use disorders (SUDs) within the Muslim American community presents unique challenges influenced by cultural, religious, and social factors. Research indicates that SUDs are often hidden within Muslim communities due to the stigma surrounding them. Addressing SUDs requires culturally sensitive prevention and treatment programs that consider the diverse backgrounds and specific needs of Muslim Americans. The goal with this Lab was to create a recovery playbook that can guide Muslim communities in their journey through recovery. This playbook was based on the feedback we received from two online workshops with seven participants from across the US. Doing a thematic analysis …

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Developing Evaluation Models For Patient-Centeredness, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Miso Kim, Silvia Cantalupi, Chenfei Yu, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli Jun 2024

Developing Evaluation Models For Patient-Centeredness, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Miso Kim, Silvia Cantalupi, Chenfei Yu, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper presents the process and outcomes of a three-month lab activity conducted in preparation for and during the 2024 DRS. Our research focused on developing a framework for an evaluation system designed to integrate patient-centered care (PCC) principles into orthopedic practices. PCC emphasizes the importance of improving health outcomes and fostering inclusivity for individual patients, as healthcare systems often grapple with challenges like fragmented care. Through a collaborative design research lab (DRS) partnership among Polifactory (Politecnico di Milano-Department of Design), the Center for Design at Northeastern University, and healthcare experts at local healthcare institutions (IRCCS Galeazzi and Massachusetts General …

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Drs 2024 Ph.D. Consortium, Ryan Bruggeman, Luis Garcia, Alayt Issak, Jules Rochielle Sievert Jun 2024

Drs 2024 Ph.D. Consortium, Ryan Bruggeman, Luis Garcia, Alayt Issak, Jules Rochielle Sievert

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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‘We’Re All In This Together’: A Mixed Methods Randomised Controlled Trial Exploring Cross-Pollinative Team Learning Studio Pedagogy’S Effects On Academic Resilience And Performance, Zhengping Liow Jun 2024

‘We’Re All In This Together’: A Mixed Methods Randomised Controlled Trial Exploring Cross-Pollinative Team Learning Studio Pedagogy’S Effects On Academic Resilience And Performance, Zhengping Liow

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design education's pedagogy of ambiguities and the One-on-One Master-Apprentice's Hidden Curriculum purportedly led to psychological distress and poor academic performance for beginning design students. Despite favourable social conditions, few studies have examined Social Support as positive adaptations towards students' academic resilience in design studios. This mixed methods randomised controlled trial compared One-on-One and Cross-pollinative Team Learning (CTL) students. Inferential statistics revealed that One-on-One students were more resilient (p = .065 & p = .126), but CTL students have academically outperformed significantly (p = .0003 & p = .017). Thematic Analysis of CTL students’ focus group interview as they transitioned to …

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Envisioning Transformation Structures To Support Ethical Mediation Practices, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray Jun 2024

Envisioning Transformation Structures To Support Ethical Mediation Practices, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Ethics is complex and situated, involving many stakeholders that impact the design of technology systems. Numerous methods and tools have been proposed to enable practitioners to address ethical issues in the workplace. However, little work has described how designers themselves understand and seek to respond to that ethical complexity. In this short paper, we present five transformation structures that visually and relationally depict how ethics might be addressed in a workplace setting. We base these structures on analysis of plans that 39 practitioners and students created in a co-design workshop to address an ethical concern in their job role. We …

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Measuring Mental Wellbeing – Can We Measure It, And If So, What Should We Measure, And How? A Qualitative Provotyping Study, Sander Hermsen, Lieke Pijnenborg Jun 2024

Measuring Mental Wellbeing – Can We Measure It, And If So, What Should We Measure, And How? A Qualitative Provotyping Study, Sander Hermsen, Lieke Pijnenborg

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Mental wellbeing is a growing concern for many young adults today. The design of digital products and services that could support young adults is hampered by a lack of knowledge about what constitutes mental wellbeing, and what design requirements exist for interventions. This study applied a provotyping method to add to this knowledge. Results show that mental wellbeing is broader than hedonic and eudaimonic aspects, encompassing also social, psychosocial, health- and activity-related and relaxation-related aspects. Design requirements for interventions that automatically register and provide feedback on mental wellbeing include tailoring of defining aspects to personal situations, algorithms that learn from …

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Shanzhai As A Pluriversal Praxis: Challenging Western Design And Innovation Paradigm, Dan Mu Jun 2024

Shanzhai As A Pluriversal Praxis: Challenging Western Design And Innovation Paradigm, Dan Mu

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper explores the concept of Shanzhai ('fake' in Chinese), a Chinese practice often associated with imitation and design plagiarism, this study uses Shan-zhai to critique dominant forms of innovation, framed by a discussion of pluriversal design. Through a comprehensive literature review and empirical research, this study explores Shanzhai's evolution from a response to globalisation and de-sign colonisation to a reflection of identity. Shanzhai's unique approach challenges dominant design narratives, but in its own way emphasises inclusiveness and innovation. The study concludes that Shanzhai transcends its initial role as a design and manufacturing practice, evolving into a cultural phenomenon symbolising …

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The Uses Of Enchantment: Playful Design Tools That Evoke ‘The Unsayable’ For Teenagers With Lived Experience Of Loneliness., Eloise Belladonna Day Jun 2024

The Uses Of Enchantment: Playful Design Tools That Evoke ‘The Unsayable’ For Teenagers With Lived Experience Of Loneliness., Eloise Belladonna Day

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This project introduces tools that involve teenagers, with relevant lived experiences, in co-creating a social-purpose advertising campaign as a way of meaningfully engaging young audiences. Many co-creation methods rely on direct, text-based, or individual spoken contribution methods. These disregard young people’s unconscious knowledges and collective ways of knowing. The research was conducted through ethnographic methods alongside semi-structured interviews with the participants of a co-created campaign workshop. The result is a suite of novel playful tools which generate collective insight and creative ideas by engaging teenagers’ collective, embodied and imaginative ways of knowing. The key concept of ‘enchantment’ is used to …

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Born Alone, But Not Lonely: Rethinking Public Space Design For Chinese One-Child Generation’S Affinity For Solitude, Xia Bi, Caterina Villani, Kin Wai Michael Siu Jun 2024

Born Alone, But Not Lonely: Rethinking Public Space Design For Chinese One-Child Generation’S Affinity For Solitude, Xia Bi, Caterina Villani, Kin Wai Michael Siu

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Understanding the psychological needs of users is crucial for public space designers and healthy city planners. However, there is currently less atten-tion paid to the need for solitude in public spaces, despite psychological re-search demonstrating the positive impact of public space use on physical and mental health. With the only-child generation becoming the main pro-ductive generation in Chinese society, it is important to determine their psychological needs regarding public space use. This study aimed to address this issue by using questionnaire studies. Participants (n=521) aged between 10 and 25 completed an online questionnaire survey. The results indicated that the young …

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Policy Design, Lived Experience, And Speculative Futures, Michael Mintrom, Shanti Sumartojo, Lisa Grocott, Hannah Korsmeyer, Myf Doughty Jun 2024

Policy Design, Lived Experience, And Speculative Futures, Michael Mintrom, Shanti Sumartojo, Lisa Grocott, Hannah Korsmeyer, Myf Doughty

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Good policy design calls for analysis of problems, how they might be addressed, and likely outcomes. Policy scholars and practitioners have devised methods that bring rigor to policy design through problem framing, assessment of potential interventions, and prediction of outcomes of those interventions. This pursuit of analytical and predictive rigor has often given short shrift to the insights of people whose lives are affected by current challenges and who will be impacted by policy change. We consider how lived experience might effectively inform policy design. Our theory of change is that creative engagement with citizens can generate insights of high …

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New European Bauhaus: A Designer's Retrospective., Alessandro Rancati Jun 2024

New European Bauhaus: A Designer's Retrospective., Alessandro Rancati

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, the former lead designer of the New European Bauhaus Unit at the European Commission offers a retrospective on how design has helped to shape the initiative, from the definition of its visual identity, through the development of the co-design phase, to the establishment of the New European Bauhaus Prizes, the Community and the NEB Lab.

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Gulls On The Move? Synanthropic Design In The Dutch Delta, Joanna Van Der Leun, Laurens Kolks, Bregje F. Van Eekelen Jun 2024

Gulls On The Move? Synanthropic Design In The Dutch Delta, Joanna Van Der Leun, Laurens Kolks, Bregje F. Van Eekelen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This article develops a synanthropic design approach. The Port of Rotterdam currently houses one of Europe’s largest colonies of the synanthropic species of Lesser Black-backed Gulls. The thriving of this particular colony is entangled with human interventions and economic activities in the larger Dutch Delta. We map the managerial, legal, political, and economic interrelations and dependencies that animate the human and more-than-human contact zone. By including a gull's perspective on the Dutch delta environment, this study aims to support the facilitated coexistence of humans and Lesser Black-backed Gulls in the Port of Rotterdam – now and in the future. The …

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From Data Points To Well-Being: A Design Framework Of Self-Tracked Data Through The Lens Of Positive Psychology, Yvette Shen Jun 2024

From Data Points To Well-Being: A Design Framework Of Self-Tracked Data Through The Lens Of Positive Psychology, Yvette Shen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The "Quantified Self" movement has grown, with more people using self-tracking tools to monitor everything from physical activities to emotional well-being. This study investigates the interplay between self-tracking practices and positive psychology, highlighting their collective potential to boost personal well-being. Integrating self-tracked data with principles like strengths, resilience, and personal growth allows for the transformation of mere metrics into compelling stories. The paper presents a de-sign framework that is influenced by classroom projects and the examination of data presentation in health and fitness apps. This framework manages the complete data lifecycle—from collection and organization to interpretation, presentation, and finally, harnessing …

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Governance In Silico: Experimental Sandbox For Policymaking Over Ai Agents, Denisa Reshef Kera, Eilat Navon, Galit Wellner, Frantisek Kalvas Jun 2024

Governance In Silico: Experimental Sandbox For Policymaking Over Ai Agents, Denisa Reshef Kera, Eilat Navon, Galit Wellner, Frantisek Kalvas

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The concept of 'governance in silico' summarizes and questions the design and policy experiments with synthetic data and content in public policy, such as synthetic data simulations, AI agents, and digital twins. While it acknowledges the risks of hallucinations, errors, and biases, often reflected in the parameters and weights of the ML models, it focuses on the prompts. Prompts enable stakeholder negotiation and representation of diverse agendas and perspectives that support experimental and inclusive policymaking. To explore the prompts' engagement qualities, we conducted a pilot study on co-designing AI agents for negotiating contested aspects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act …

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'Design Your Menopause Life' As A Pathway To Successful Ageing, Linda Shore, Grant Cumming, Irene Mcara-Mcwilliam, Mel Allen, Claire Hester Jun 2024

'Design Your Menopause Life' As A Pathway To Successful Ageing, Linda Shore, Grant Cumming, Irene Mcara-Mcwilliam, Mel Allen, Claire Hester

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The ‘Menopause - a Pathway to successful ageing - or not?’ research explores the life stage experience leading up to and following menopause. Menopause is defined as a moment in time 12 months after someone’s final period, Peri menopause is a time in someone’s life leading up to menopause but when symptoms or changes can be experienced. This research focusses on a time in a typical female’s lifespan whereby they are managing life and career of family responsibilities bringing up children while experiencing symptoms of peri-menopause and menopause. It is well documented how exercise and health awareness can optimise and …

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A Distributed Approach To Design Sketching, James Self Jun 2024

A Distributed Approach To Design Sketching, James Self

DRS Biennial Conference Series

There has been much work towards understanding design sketching, its role and utility for design thinking. However, there remains little explanatory theory to structure our discussion of sketching and its importance. Drawing upon reflective practice as design paradigm and adopting a distributed theory of mind, I position sketching as distribution of design thinking. I provide an operational definition of the design sketch as particular type of design representation that includes sketch as articulation of future solution opportunities, variation in the expression of design intent through representational ambiguity, and the sketch as iconic representation. I locate the design sketch through a …

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Critical Design Soaps: Resisting The Aesthetic Hygiene Of Popular Design Methods, Felicia Nilsson, Josina Vink Jun 2024

Critical Design Soaps: Resisting The Aesthetic Hygiene Of Popular Design Methods, Felicia Nilsson, Josina Vink

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design educators often utilize methods to teach students the practices of design. Yet, these popularized methods often wash away mess and inadvertently cultivate aesthetic hygiene among designers. In response, this research explores the following question: How can we instill critical aesthetic reflexivity among designers about the ways that design methods cultivate aesthetic hygiene? In two workshops with design students and practicing designers, we worked with soaps as tangible metaphors to explore the mess that popular methods erase. Exhibited together with prompting questions, these soaps were then used to spark conversations among design educators. Through our analysis of this process, we …

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