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Pluriversality On Earth And Beyond: Opening The Field Of Critical Interplanetary Design Within The Design Discipline, Juan Giusepe Montalvan Lume, Louis Amadeus Arteaga Benavides, Julio Cesar Corrales Ardiles, Camila Alexandra Vásquez Cerda, José Cornejo Jun 2024

Pluriversality On Earth And Beyond: Opening The Field Of Critical Interplanetary Design Within The Design Discipline, Juan Giusepe Montalvan Lume, Louis Amadeus Arteaga Benavides, Julio Cesar Corrales Ardiles, Camila Alexandra Vásquez Cerda, José Cornejo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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What Is Next For Civic Design?, Mike De Kreek, Ferry Ferry Van De Mosselaer, Katrina Newell, Martijn De Waal, Eric Gordon, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Andrea Hamm, Gabriele Ferri, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Wina Smeenk, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi Jun 2024

What Is Next For Civic Design?, Mike De Kreek, Ferry Ferry Van De Mosselaer, Katrina Newell, Martijn De Waal, Eric Gordon, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Andrea Hamm, Gabriele Ferri, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Wina Smeenk, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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Design For Longevity (D4l): Project Your Future Self Through Service And Technology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Anna Meroni, Carla Sedini Jun 2024

Design For Longevity (D4l): Project Your Future Self Through Service And Technology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Anna Meroni, Carla Sedini

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Amid the advancement of technologies, robust socioeconomic systems, transformational healthcare systems, and sustainable wealth management, people not only live longer but want to live better: with purpose, delight, and respect (Coughlin, 2017). As lifespans extend, the traditional stages of life – learning, earning, and retiring – have transformed into multi-generational stages (Golden, 2022). The demographic shift and social-economical context have inspired and generated the concept of Design for Longevity (D4L), which emphasizes a sustainable life-long cycle (Lee et al., 2023; Ulrich et al., 2020; Sedini et al., 2020; Justice, 2019). One key factor to maintaining a better quality of life …


More-Than-Human Design In Practice, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Cristina Zaga, Arne Berger, Laura Forlano, Elisa Giaccardi Jun 2024

More-Than-Human Design In Practice, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Cristina Zaga, Arne Berger, Laura Forlano, Elisa Giaccardi

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The field of design is currently undergoing a more-than-human turn. This shift is driven by pressing global challenges such as the climate crisis, alongside the increased agency of technologies in everyday life and a growing interest in advancing inclusive and sustainable agendas. This track invited submissions reporting on practical experiments within this emerging space. The contributions highlight diverse ways in which more-than-human thinking can be enacted across various contexts and emphasize the importance of forging new alliances –between humans and nonhumans, theory and practice, and research and industry. This editorial unpacks the track’s motivation and summarizes the contributions received, examining …


Spatial Justice In Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse, Miriam Tedeschi, Jules Rochielle Sievert Jun 2024

Spatial Justice In Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse, Miriam Tedeschi, Jules Rochielle Sievert

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Our research track, "Spatial Justice in Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse," embarks on an in-depth exploration of spatial justice, interweaving its multifaceted elements with broader themes of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. This comprehensive approach probes spatial justice through its tangible embodiments and digital manifestations, underlining its profound influence on resource allocation, opportunities, and service provision. With an ambitious goal to challenge systemic socio-economic imbalances, the track formulates tangible design interventions, incorporating policy reform, urban planning, and community empowerment. We foster a collaborative environment, inviting a spectrum of professionals - designers, technologists, researchers, legal advocates, and policymakers - to …


Design For Balance: Reimagining Processes And Competences For Sustainable Futures, Paola Bertola, Erminia D'Itria, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Carmen Bruno, Ruta Valusyte, Luca Simeone, Rike Neuhoff Neuhoff Jun 2024

Design For Balance: Reimagining Processes And Competences For Sustainable Futures, Paola Bertola, Erminia D'Itria, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Carmen Bruno, Ruta Valusyte, Luca Simeone, Rike Neuhoff Neuhoff

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The 6th Assessment Report (2021) claims that the most ambitious threshold of the Paris climate agreement will be reached and exceeded by 2040: climate change and climate diplomacy do not coincide. The adaptation and mitigation failure indicates a certain increase in inequalities at the intra-state and global levels and substantial economic damage. Design for Balance stimulates the reimagination of our productive, technological, societal and cultural systems, moving away from compensation strategies, which focus on balancing their negative impacts, to embrace systemic change, which focuses on establishing new balance within their components. Design principles, processes and competences have highly contributed to …


Translational Design: Enabling Impact In Complex, Multi-Stakeholder Research Projects Through Design, Rowan Christopher Page, Rosie Hornbuckle, Leah Heiss, André Nogueira Jun 2024

Translational Design: Enabling Impact In Complex, Multi-Stakeholder Research Projects Through Design, Rowan Christopher Page, Rosie Hornbuckle, Leah Heiss, André Nogueira

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Translational research converts the knowledge generated through basic research into tangible innovations, solutions, and interventions that directly impact people and the planet. As universities increasingly seek to maximise research impact, the applied, action-oriented, epistemology of design is well-positioned to support translational research. Successful translation requires strong communication and collaboration between different disciplines, industry partners, policy, and research end-users. Multi-stakeholder collaborations foster holistic approaches, leading to more effective and contextually relevant solutions. Designers are well-positioned to facilitate complex entanglements, integrating the needs and values of diverse perspectives. However, the emerging role of design as an enabler of translational research needs to …


Past, Present, And Future: Understanding The Expanse Of Design For Policy And Governance, Scott Schmidt, Marzia Mortati Jun 2024

Past, Present, And Future: Understanding The Expanse Of Design For Policy And Governance, Scott Schmidt, Marzia Mortati

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Sponsored as the official track of PoGoSIG, this track aims to critically explore and define the relationship between policy and design. Further, this track will serve as an initial call for papers for the upcoming edited volume of the same subject in the Routledge series ‘Design for Social Responsibility’ edited by Rachel Cooper. The track can be divided into an expanse of three key areas: 1. Past: Resistance Where did design for policy emerge from? Papers that can provide historical overviews of key initiatives that have demonstrated the value of and challenges for design for policy. The papers will provide …


Design For Manufacturing: Rehumanising Digital Manufacturing, Mersha Aftab, Rebecca Grant, Mey Goh Goh, Iryna Yesseyeva Jun 2024

Design For Manufacturing: Rehumanising Digital Manufacturing, Mersha Aftab, Rebecca Grant, Mey Goh Goh, Iryna Yesseyeva

DRS Biennial Conference Series

What role is design research playing in the re-humanisation of digital manufacturing? This theme track aims to bring transdisciplinary researchers together, looking at how design explores, supports, and leads digital transformation within the manufacturing sectors worldwide to be more people-centred. Design research significantly contributes to digital transformation within the private and public sectors. Regarding manufacturing, existing literature provides measurable readiness levels, such as the technology readiness index (TRI) (Parasuraman, 2000; Parasuraman & Colby, 2015; Tsikriktsis, 2004) or the Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). However, these models do not consider people and their perceived efficacy for new technologies. Design research and human-centred …


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 …


Play Design: Initiating Transformation Through Imagination, Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Sofie Kinch, Sune Gudiksen, Shanti Sumartojo, Lisa Grocott, Colleen Macklin Jun 2024

Play Design: Initiating Transformation Through Imagination, Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Sofie Kinch, Sune Gudiksen, Shanti Sumartojo, Lisa Grocott, Colleen Macklin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

There is a growing interest in the new design field, play design. By applying qualities from play, play design can help create opportunities to meet an unknown future with curiosity, empowering designers to make decisions and to keep a shared hope. As a fundamental aspect of human existence, play has been a source of expression, social interaction, and transformative growth across various cultures for thousands of years. Play design can connect and transform us to keep imagining and reimagining the future - together. In this theme track we explore the transformative power of play and how play design and designers …


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 …


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 …


Ethics In/Of/For Design, Deger Ozkaramanli, Laura F. Ferrarello, Linda N. Laursen Jun 2024

Ethics In/Of/For Design, Deger Ozkaramanli, Laura F. Ferrarello, Linda N. Laursen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

We frame design ethics as an invitation to care and argue against reducing it to a methodology, framework, checklist, toolkit, or an afterthought. This broad framing acknowledges that ‘ethics’ can carry multiple meanings in different contexts (e.g. responsible, critical, democratic) and can be approached from various theoretical perspectives (e.g. historical, cultural, speculative). Consequently, we recognize the need for a nuanced and reflexive discussion on why, where and how ethical questions and dilemmas intersect with design research and practices. For this, we aim to look back with critical historical awareness, while also looking forward with cautious optimism. We welcome both theoretical …


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 …


‘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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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.


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 …


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 …


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 …


'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 …


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 …


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 …


Harmonizing With Nature: Unpacking The Neurophysiological Impacts Of Biophilic Sound In Virtual Classroom Design, Nayeon Kim, John S. Gero, Dawoon Jung Jun 2024

Harmonizing With Nature: Unpacking The Neurophysiological Impacts Of Biophilic Sound In Virtual Classroom Design, Nayeon Kim, John S. Gero, Dawoon Jung

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper presents the results of an experiment on the effects of biophilic sound on electroencephalography (EEG) activations by comparing two virtual classroom designs: one non-biophilic and one biophilic. The results reveal significant inter-hemispheric interactions in theta, alpha, and gamma frequency bands. The presence of biophilic sound in conjunction with other biophilic elements decreases beta power, compared to its absence. These findings underscore the influence of auditory biophilic experiences on neurophysiological responses, providing insights for evidence-based design strategies to enhance biophilic environments.


Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray Jun 2024

Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design researchers have previously sought to describe, model, and represent the cognitive processes of designers. In parallel, researchers in HCI and STS have identified a range of frameworks to describe the ethical and value-related char-acter of design activity. We have identified a productive gap between these two sets of literature—namely, the role of analytic methods in describing ethical de-cision-making as one aspect of design complexity. In this paper, we describe and explore an approach for quantifying the ethical character of design decision-making, building upon existing critical approaches from HCI and STS literature. Through a series of visualizations at varying temporal …