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Towards A Heuristic Model For Experiential Ai: Analysing The Zizi Show In The New Real, Drew Hemment, Martin Zeilinger, Matjaz Vidmar, Jake Elwes, Holly Warner, David Sarmiento, Robin Hill Jun 2022

Towards A Heuristic Model For Experiential Ai: Analysing The Zizi Show In The New Real, Drew Hemment, Martin Zeilinger, Matjaz Vidmar, Jake Elwes, Holly Warner, David Sarmiento, Robin Hill

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Based on the rapid pace of evolving creative practice in AI arts, we identify an urgent need to develop frameworks for analysing the critical dimensions (including social/political) of this emerging field. This paper offers a comprehensive case study of The Zizi Show, by Jake Elwes, developed as part of The New Real and Experiential AI programme at the Edinburgh Futures Institute within the University of Edinburgh. Based on this case study analysis, we propose the structuring of distinct project characteristics into four categories (socio-cultural and institutional aspects; technology and media; artistic experience and affect; and audience and staging) which form …

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Designing Hair, Saúl Baeza, Kristina Andersen, Oscar Tomico Jun 2022

Designing Hair, Saúl Baeza, Kristina Andersen, Oscar Tomico

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Hair forms an evolving boundary between the inside and the outside of the body, it is both separate from us and a part of us. At the same time it is strongly directed by culture and norms. With this project, we disturb and shift these norms by describing a set of speculative design explorations on hair. We describe these explorations and outline the practices and techniques that are emerging. As such this paper constitutes a report of a set of explorations and points towards the possibility of hair as an arena for designerly work.

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Spatial Design + Service Design: Framing A Transdisciplinary Perspective, Annalinda De Rosa, Gea Sasso Jun 2022

Spatial Design + Service Design: Framing A Transdisciplinary Perspective, Annalinda De Rosa, Gea Sasso

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Design-driven praxis aimed at the transformation of spaces in relation to social and relational practices confront design researchers with the need to develop transdisciplinary approaches. If, on one side, it is impossible to envision a space without its subject matter – encounters, relations, and interactions between human and non-human entities –, on the other any type of service designed to be part of that place relies on a spatial dimension and its material reality is inevitably influences. This assumption raises questions for the design discipline: what happens when the design of spaces and services is intertwined? How can we design …

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Design Capabilities For Community Resilience: Towards Dialogic Practices And Policies, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Emmanuel Tsekleves Jun 2022

Design Capabilities For Community Resilience: Towards Dialogic Practices And Policies, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Emmanuel Tsekleves

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This paper draws on a pilot study insight into Brazilian informal-settlement communities’ problems, adaptative strategies and needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although communities play a noteworthy role in resilience, emergency and recovery plans often lack sufficient community engagement. This contributes to leaving particularly disadvantaged communities behind. Inequalities were further exacerbated during the pandemic, urging the deployment of plural and sustainable measures, which can promote equity in a global health crisis. Design can play a meaningful role in tackling inequalities in emergency and recovery. However, this role of design is still under-researched in resilience. We expand on related work analyses to …

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Design Elements In Data Physicalization: A Systematic Literature Review, Žarko Dumičić, Katja Thoring, Hermann W. Klöckner, Gesche Joost Jun 2022

Design Elements In Data Physicalization: A Systematic Literature Review, Žarko Dumičić, Katja Thoring, Hermann W. Klöckner, Gesche Joost

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Data physicalization is a growing research field that focuses on data representation and communication through the geometry or materials of physical objects. As part of this paper, we aim to contribute to the design-centric physicalization research by presenting a systematic literature review on the topic. We have identified and included 163 published and peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles with primary data on physicalization artifacts. We have analyzed the sources from the point of view of conceptual and practical design elements. The results provide an insight into the state-of-the art research on design elements in data physicalization. This review is …

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Teixint Superilles: A Grassroots Project Of Participatory Design For Inclusive Public Spaces, Clément Rames, Mireia Lozano Carbassé, Lea Karrasch, Roger Guilemany Casas Jun 2022

Teixint Superilles: A Grassroots Project Of Participatory Design For Inclusive Public Spaces, Clément Rames, Mireia Lozano Carbassé, Lea Karrasch, Roger Guilemany Casas

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This paper presents the Teixint Superilles project which developed participatory design activities to create more inclusive public space. Our hypothesis was that when citizens have the opportunity to participate in placemaking activities, they gain not only greater awareness of their environment, but also a sense of agency over their city. Through a series of workshops, we have been experimenting with diverse methodologies for civic participation while confronting a wide range of participants with topics of gender, functional diversity, cross-generational inclusivity, and sustainability. We facilitated workshops in three different environments, thus reaching a wide range of participants: a public park, a …

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Reframing Homelessness, Danielle Arets, Jessy De Cooker, Vera Boonman, Lia Van Doorn, Manon Van Hoeckel, Marleen Van Der Kolk Jun 2022

Reframing Homelessness, Danielle Arets, Jessy De Cooker, Vera Boonman, Lia Van Doorn, Manon Van Hoeckel, Marleen Van Der Kolk

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The persistent negative framing surrounding homelessness in the Netherlands hinders constructive policymaking and has a damaging effect on the self-esteem of the young homeless (van Steenbergen, 2020). So far, no strategies have been developed to think beyond this persistent framing. In the design research trajectories Bouwdepot [building depot] & Beelddepot [image depot] journalism researchers, design researchers, social researchers, policymakers, and formerly homeless young adults, co-designed methods to develop new ways of representing homelessness. Utilizing Frame Innovation (Dorst, 2015), we co-designed and reimagined solutions going forward including the perspectives of policymakers, journalists, and people with lived experiences in homelessness. We have …

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Metaphors For Designers Working With Ai, Dave Murray-Rust, Iohanna Nicenboim, Dan Lockton Jun 2022

Metaphors For Designers Working With Ai, Dave Murray-Rust, Iohanna Nicenboim, Dan Lockton

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In this paper, we explore the use of metaphors for people working with artificial intelligence, in particular those that support designers in thinking about the creation of AI systems. Metaphors both illuminate and hide, simplifying and connecting to existing knowledge, centring particular ideas, marginalising others, and shaping fields of practice. The practices of machine learning and artificial intelligence draw heavily on metaphors, whether black boxes, or the idea of learn-ing and training, but at the edges of the field, as design engages with computational practices, it is not always apparent which terms are used metaphorically, and which associations can be …

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What Legal Design Is As Opposed To Could/Should Be, Sankalp Bhatnagar Jun 2022

What Legal Design Is As Opposed To Could/Should Be, Sankalp Bhatnagar

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How come legal designers keep relying on design things that make change appear possible when we know that legal things are more reliable at making change actually possible? We argue for an understanding of what legal design is as opposed to could / should be in terms of actual change (sensed as changes of a world) and the appearance of change (sensed as changed in the world). We describe what things and background practices are and do, what design things and legal things are and do, and what designers and lawyers or judges are and tend to do. We conclude …

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Organizational Learning Through Collaborative Project-Based Service Design Course: The Flip Side Of The Coin, Suzan Boztepe Jun 2022

Organizational Learning Through Collaborative Project-Based Service Design Course: The Flip Side Of The Coin, Suzan Boztepe

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Collaborating with public or private sector organizations in project-based courses equips design students with key skills to future-proof their careers, but this gives only one side of the story as the key feature of these partnerships is that they are mutualistic collaborations. However, the benefits to organizations of collaborating are not fully explored. This paper presents a case study of partnerships with four different public organizations in a service design course over a five-year period. It argues that collaborating in project-based courses serves as risk-free experimentation and paves the way for organizational learning. The paper first reviews the existing research …

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Towards A Standard: Designing An Open-Source Clay Measuring Tool, Tavs Jorgensen, Sonny Lightfoot Jun 2022

Towards A Standard: Designing An Open-Source Clay Measuring Tool, Tavs Jorgensen, Sonny Lightfoot

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This paper describes early stage research into the development of a common standard for measuring clay hardnesses in craft and design practice. The research has emerged in the context of the development of 3D printing with ceramic paste. The paper initially provides the wider context and motivation for research followed by a review of the development of this new area of practice – an area of innovation that has largely been driven by individual design practitioners through an open source approach. The paper also outlines existing approaches for measuring the plasticity and hardness of clay. The paper presents key re-search …

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Tree Box: Designing Embedded And Embodied Interaction For Contemplative Experiences In Nature-Rich Environments, Sónia Matos, Daniel Sousa Jun 2022

Tree Box: Designing Embedded And Embodied Interaction For Contemplative Experiences In Nature-Rich Environments, Sónia Matos, Daniel Sousa

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We present Tree Box, an interactive artefact designed to connect users to nature-rich environments through contemplation. The object draws on recent debates that juxtapose the benefits of meditation and mindfulness practices with exposure to nature-rich environments. Combining both with embedded and embodied interaction, we hope to add to the growing importance of designing for human well-being and planetary health. Technically, Tree Box uses Bluetooth wireless technology to locate spots for contemplation in natural surroundings. The prototype also uses a vibrating motor and an accelerometer sensor to invite users to stop in each location. By drawing on the literature that informed …

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Arabic Type In Urban Environments: A Graphic Heritage, Shaima Elbardawil Jun 2022

Arabic Type In Urban Environments: A Graphic Heritage, Shaima Elbardawil

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Graphic design as a cultural object can contribute to the design of heritage in various ways. This study investigates the meaning of heritage and graphic design in relation to culture and communication. It discusses cultural heritage in Arab states with reference to Arabic type and introduces Naskh-style typefaces in wayfinding systems and signage as a graphic urban heritage. This is done using a framework for analyzing urban graphic heritage alongside empirical field study from the United Arab Emirates and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The study reveals that graphic design provides a unique framework toward understanding the role of typographic …

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Secret Dance And Bring Light: Enhancing User Autonomy With Directional Ambiguity In Positive Emotion Regulation Interventions, Jeremy Faulk, Oluwanifemi Oluwadairo, Jungkyoon Yoon Jun 2022

Secret Dance And Bring Light: Enhancing User Autonomy With Directional Ambiguity In Positive Emotion Regulation Interventions, Jeremy Faulk, Oluwanifemi Oluwadairo, Jungkyoon Yoon

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This case study summarizes the development of a self-administered behavioral inter-vention for positive emotion regulation (PER) that gives users the freedom to choose their own positive behaviors. In contrast to the predominant practice of prescribing pos-itive behaviors (e.g., “keep a gratitude journal”), we explore whether – and how – open-ended instructions could permit users to self-select such behaviors themselves. Employ-ing a research-through-design approach over 4 iterations, our interventions utilize am-biguous prompts (e.g., ‘secret dance’ and ‘bring light’) intended to inspire users to first envision and then perform self-selected positive behaviors during their day-to-day lives. The authors engage in self-reflective exercises …

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Talking About Food: Reflecting On Transitions Of Practice In People With Lived Experience Of Food Poverty, David Perez, Roger Whitham, Gemma Coupe, Leon Cruickshank Jun 2022

Talking About Food: Reflecting On Transitions Of Practice In People With Lived Experience Of Food Poverty, David Perez, Roger Whitham, Gemma Coupe, Leon Cruickshank

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In this paper, we deploy a practice theory lens to explore how co-design activities have enabled individuals to transition to new and different advocacy, inquiry and engagement practices. The co-design project we describe sought to bring about change in a national network of organisations addressing food poverty in the UK. The aim of the project was to collaborate with young people and adults from different communities of the North of England to co-design tools for gathering stories and enabling advocacy relating to food insecurity. We use a practice theory lens to describe the relationships between co-design activities and transitions in …

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Functional And Sensible: Patient Monitoring Alarm Tones Designed With Those Who Hear Them, Avery Sen, Yoko Sen, Matt Barile, Sage Palmedo, Andreas Walden, Vitor Vicente Antunes Jun 2022

Functional And Sensible: Patient Monitoring Alarm Tones Designed With Those Who Hear Them, Avery Sen, Yoko Sen, Matt Barile, Sage Palmedo, Andreas Walden, Vitor Vicente Antunes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This is a case study in participatory design of alarm tones for the Philips IntelliVue patient monitoring system. Through interviews and workshops, we asked clinicians and other stakeholders what mattered to them as we designed new tones. We distilled responses into criteria with which to evaluate new tone options that we created by adjusting the tones’ pitch, timbre, and other parameters. In surveys, participants compared these options using the criteria distilled from interviews. The results were: 1) new tones that stakeholders judged to be improvements over the originals, and 2) criteria for evaluating future tones, based on “functionality” (i.e., their …

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Framing Scenario Thinking In A Mode Of Futures By Design Inquiry, Corbin Raymond, Andrew Morrison, Henry Mainsah Jun 2022

Framing Scenario Thinking In A Mode Of Futures By Design Inquiry, Corbin Raymond, Andrew Morrison, Henry Mainsah

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In Transdisciplinary Design inquiry, the conceptual and ideational need to be clarified when relational and qualitative methodologies are enacted. This is crucial concerning complex, emergent, and urgent matters of climate change, sustainability, and collective citizenship. Theoretically, this paper covers conceptualizing scenarios as part of future-orientated envisioning and sits between design, anticipation, and foresight studies. We then propose three scenario thinking devices based on initial literature review and conceptual positioning to engage scenario thinking. The paper proposes a reframing of scenario thinking by design research as a means to inform clearer scenario building for long term sustainable collaborative futures. Methodologically, we …

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Values Arising From Participatory Inclusive Design In A Complex Process, Stella Boess, Floris Jansen Jun 2022

Values Arising From Participatory Inclusive Design In A Complex Process, Stella Boess, Floris Jansen

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This paper addresses inclusive design in a situation of complexity and how to improve it. The focus is on the inclusive design of a complex process and its tools, which is increasingly an issue in systemic design challenges. The current situation of climate change means we need to work on sustainability and inclusion at the same time. The paper presents a case study of an energetic renovation process and the stakeholders’ activities and views in it. In a research-through-design process, the paper traces the possibilities to intervene in the process with communication tools to increase inclusivity of both process and …

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Decolonizing Cultural Safety Education In The Healthcare System Through Cultural Immersion In Indigenous Knowledge Sharing & Material Practice, Marlene Erickson, Darlene Mcintosh, Brenda Crabtree, Connie Watts, Zoe Laycock, Nicole Preissl, Nadia Beyzaei, Jean Chisholm, Caylee Raber, Sari Raber Jun 2022

Decolonizing Cultural Safety Education In The Healthcare System Through Cultural Immersion In Indigenous Knowledge Sharing & Material Practice, Marlene Erickson, Darlene Mcintosh, Brenda Crabtree, Connie Watts, Zoe Laycock, Nicole Preissl, Nadia Beyzaei, Jean Chisholm, Caylee Raber, Sari Raber

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This project explores Indigenous-led arts and material practice workshops as a form of cultural safety education by fostering dialogue between non-Indigenous healthcare students and Indigenous students in the Lheidli T’enneh Territory (Prince George, Canada). Uniquely, this project is led by an art and design university, and combines Indigenous and designerly ways of knowing to consider an approach to cultural safety education that is not solely focused on the healthcare student or practitioner as the learner, but includes the community as key contributors to the learning experience. Core to the workshop model is the combination of sharing Indigenous histories and the …

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Weaving Design As A Practice Of Freedom: Critical Pedagogy In An Insurgent Network, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Frederick M.C. Van Amstel, Marco Mazzarotto, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Sâmia Batista E Silva, Yasmin Da Silva Menezes Jun 2022

Weaving Design As A Practice Of Freedom: Critical Pedagogy In An Insurgent Network, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Frederick M.C. Van Amstel, Marco Mazzarotto, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Sâmia Batista E Silva, Yasmin Da Silva Menezes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design can be both a practice of freedom or a practice of oppression, depending on who designs and whose intentions are prioritized. When this practice underestimates, excludes, disrespects, or deceives people who are part of oppressed groups, it intensifies oppression. Design as a practice of freedom takes more than a new design method. It requires the union of the oppressed. This paper describes the weaving of the Design & Oppression network, which responded to the growth of political authoritarianism and naive consciousness in design. The network's goal is to establish bonds of solidarity between all struggles against oppression that cut …

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A More-Than-Human Right-To-Repair, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton Jun 2022

A More-Than-Human Right-To-Repair, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Whilst the recent introduction of the Right-to-Repair to European citizens is undoubtedly a step forward in tackling planned obsolescence, and the resultant deluge of electronic product waste – the efficacy of this new legislation is reliant on consumers availing themselves of this right. Given that repairing and maintaining devices will often require specialist knowledge and skills, it is difficult to assess how effective this right may prove to be in practice. To address this concern, we draw from the expanding infusion of datafication and Artificial Intelligence into everyday products and services via the Internet of Things to consider alternative futures …

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Performative Modes Of Inquiry As Everyday Theatre, Maria Foverskov Jun 2022

Performative Modes Of Inquiry As Everyday Theatre, Maria Foverskov

DRS Biennial Conference Series

I aim to strengthen Social Design inquiries by introducing lenses from Performance Studies and Design Anthropology for acquiring better understandings of how social designers navigate performative processes of practice research. I draw upon experiences in co-producing performative modes of inquiries as an everyday theatre. A design research project supporting citizens, public and private partners in different ways in which communities of senior citizens could be supported in organizing and meeting up for social and outdoor exercise activities on an ad-hoc basis. I show how knowledges is bodily co-produced and performed through multiple partners co-scripting the performance of an everyday theatre, …

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Participatory Tool For Productive Citizenship In A Regional Maker Network, Luca D'Elia, Lina Monaco, Viktor Malakuczi Jun 2022

Participatory Tool For Productive Citizenship In A Regional Maker Network, Luca D'Elia, Lina Monaco, Viktor Malakuczi

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The various types of fab-labs and makerspaces distributed in the urban context can be recognised as an organism capable of optimizing resources, producing ideas and artefacts in a participatory culture, that is also a tool for citizen engagement and self-organisation. This contribution reports on a series of surveys aimed at identify-ing and evaluating the network of urban manufacturers and users across the maker culture in Italy’s Lazio region. These actors are inserted in a framework of public and private initiatives, and they cover a social role within the urban fabric. Based on the regional context of inquiry, the ongoing research …

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Positioning Design In Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Experiences From A Smart City Consortium Project, Anouk Geenen, Deger Özkaramanli, Julieta Matos-Castaño, Mascha Van Der Voort Jun 2022

Positioning Design In Transdisciplinary Collaborations: Experiences From A Smart City Consortium Project, Anouk Geenen, Deger Özkaramanli, Julieta Matos-Castaño, Mascha Van Der Voort

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This paper explores the positioning of design in transdisciplinary collaborations. Design is increasingly positioned as a promising way of working in complex, multi-stakeholder collaborations. In this paper, we want to deepen and challenge this positioning in order to better clarify the contribution of design. Building on literature and experiences from an ongoing consortium-type research project in the context of smart cities, we concep-tualize five preliminary roles that design adopts in collaborative settings: (1) generator; (2) communicator; (3) facilitator; (4) mediator and (5) provocateur. We argue that the latter two roles, namely the mediator and provocateur, are the most recent and …

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Spatialized Video Communication Platforms: Applications In Design Education And Conferencing, Bjorn Sommer, Ayn Sayuti, Zidong Lin, Shefali Bohra, Emre Kayganaci, Jenny Hu, Caroline Yan Zheng, Chang Hee Lee, Seán O'Donoghue, Ashley Hall, Paul Anderson Jun 2022

Spatialized Video Communication Platforms: Applications In Design Education And Conferencing, Bjorn Sommer, Ayn Sayuti, Zidong Lin, Shefali Bohra, Emre Kayganaci, Jenny Hu, Caroline Yan Zheng, Chang Hee Lee, Seán O'Donoghue, Ashley Hall, Paul Anderson

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During the pandemic, the impact of video communication platforms drastically increased. But in front of a screen, flexible and serendipitous interactions known from real-life settings were reduced to a minimum. Zoom fatigue occurred very quickly and early on developments were started to provide more flexible alternatives to video-focused platforms. Spatialized Video Communication Platforms (SVCP) reintroduce more flexibility, serendipity and improved dynamic group forming by providing game-like environments. After a brief review on SVCPs, we are focusing here on the highly-customizable Gather.town platform. We developed an Open-Source pipeline to create 3D-based environments that meet the demand for visual requirements from design-engineering …

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Design Research At The Border Of Art, Technology, And Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Challenges Of Games For Health Research, Aslihan Tece Bayrak Jun 2022

Design Research At The Border Of Art, Technology, And Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Challenges Of Games For Health Research, Aslihan Tece Bayrak

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Healthcare research is increasingly becoming more multidisciplinary with the involvement of various disciplines outside the medical sciences including but not limited to engineering, computer science, human computer interaction, and games. Since game development is interdisciplinary, games for health (G4H) encloses transitions between technology, humanities, social sciences, and health & rehabilitation. At an overlapping discourse of multi-disciplinarity, inter-disciplinarity, and trans-disciplinarity, this paper presents design research as a core research methodology for G4H research via reflecting on a G4H project. The aims of the paper are (1) motivating the use of design research for G4H, (2) reflecting on the challenges of interdisciplinary …

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Fuzzy Logic Evaluation Of Customer Loyalty In Local, Community, And International Cafes In Hong Kong, Bharati Das, Sylvia Xihui Liu Jun 2022

Fuzzy Logic Evaluation Of Customer Loyalty In Local, Community, And International Cafes In Hong Kong, Bharati Das, Sylvia Xihui Liu

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It is a company’s paramount goal to achieve customer loyalty and expand its business. The effectiveness of these business strategies is relative to customer loyalty which is often pursued through a binary approach. This paper primarily focuses on a non-binary approach using Mamdani Fuzzy logic to measure customer loyalty and compares the outcomes with a binary approach. Also, the customer loyalty factors, including repeat patronage and relative attitude, are explored. Further, a comparison of loyalty towards various cafe categories in Hong Kong is presented. Customer Loyalty Matrix has been used to classify the above cafes based on the loyalty factors. …

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Regeneration In Action: Toward A New Path For Sustainable Research Projects, Caroline Nowaki, Marguerite Foissac Jun 2022

Regeneration In Action: Toward A New Path For Sustainable Research Projects, Caroline Nowaki, Marguerite Foissac

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As COP26 just ended with moderate commitments from governments to keep global warming under 1.5°C, how can designers contribute to fight climate change? Systemic design has proposed to change design perspective from the user to the system in which the user and the designer operate to envision better our social and environmental impact. Regenerative design adds that we should aim for positive instead of net-zero impact and change our mindset and practices to create the conditions for all forms of life to thrive. If regenerative guidelines exist in urban design, it is unclear how UX-UI designers should change their practices …

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Value-Drive Design Approach To Envision Speculative Futures, Yihyun Lim, Bumjin Kim Jun 2022

Value-Drive Design Approach To Envision Speculative Futures, Yihyun Lim, Bumjin Kim

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This paper presents a design approach that brings together speculative design, value-sensitive design, and emotion-based ethnographic method to identify value-experiences for the design of value-driven speculative futures. The paper discusses the approach in five steps; 1) emotion-based design ethnography, 2) visual mapping and value-extraction, 3) secondary research of technology and socio-cultural trends and filtering of technologies based on its interpreted value-experiences, 4) design of value-driven future scenarios, 5) materializing scenarios as discursive prototypes. We explore COVID19 pandemic as a context of research-through-design inquiry in developing this approach.

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How Might We Evaluate Co-Design? A Literature Review On Existing Practices, Zixuan Wang, Tingting Jiang, Jiawen Huang, Yixuan Tai, Paola Maria Trapani Jun 2022

How Might We Evaluate Co-Design? A Literature Review On Existing Practices, Zixuan Wang, Tingting Jiang, Jiawen Huang, Yixuan Tai, Paola Maria Trapani

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Background: In recent years, co-design has seen exponential adoption in response to complex socio-technical transitions. However, the appraisal around co-design still lacks development, making its quality, effect, and value ambiguous. Aim: This study aims to encourage more research and practice in co-design evaluation by summarizing existing attempts. Method: We first conducted an integrative literature review in Scopus by analyzing and comparing existing methods used for assessing co-design. Then we iteratively coded the reviewed articles in ATLAS.ti following grounded theory. Through critical reflection and synthesis of the codes, we formed higher-level themes describing different aspects of co-design assessment. Based on these, …

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