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Storytelling And Repetitive Narratives For Design Empathy: Case Suomenlinna, Jonas Fritsch, Andrea Júdice, Katja Soini, Phillip Tretten May 2007

Storytelling And Repetitive Narratives For Design Empathy: Case Suomenlinna, Jonas Fritsch, Andrea Júdice, Katja Soini, Phillip Tretten

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Today it is widely established in design research that empathy is an important part of creating a true understanding of user experience as a resource for design. A typical challenge is how to transmit the feeling of empathy acquired by user studies to designers who have not participated in the user study. In this article, we show how we attained an empathic understanding through storytelling and aroused empathy to others using repetitive narratives in an experimental presentation bringing forth factual, reflective and experiential aspects of the user information. Taking as a starting point our experiences with the design project Suomenlinna …

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To Reflect On Interaction Form, In Practice, Hanna Landin May 2007

To Reflect On Interaction Form, In Practice, Hanna Landin

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How to teach reflective skills within form in interaction design to students with a background mainly in computer science and only to a small degree in design? As part of ongoing work on answering that question one example of an exercise is presented and concluding remarks made.

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Designing For Inquisitive Users: A Pragmatist Perspective On Users In Experience-Oriented Interaction Design., Peter Dalsgaard May 2007

Designing For Inquisitive Users: A Pragmatist Perspective On Users In Experience-Oriented Interaction Design., Peter Dalsgaard

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This article presents a perspective on users of experience-oriented interactive systems based on a pragmatist foundation. The perspective is characterized by the interrelated aspects of experience, inquiry, and conflict. The consequences of this perspective for understanding users in the design of experienceoriented interactive systems are discussed on the basis of case-studies of two Nordic experienceoriented installations. The contribution of this article is a critical reconceptualization of users as inquisitive co-creators of interactive experiences, and reflections on consequential design implications.

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Team Directed, Project Based Education: A Case Study Of An Entrepreneurial, Trans-Disciplinary, Design Studio Abroad, Helen Sanematsu May 2007

Team Directed, Project Based Education: A Case Study Of An Entrepreneurial, Trans-Disciplinary, Design Studio Abroad, Helen Sanematsu

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This is a report from the trenches. This article offers a critique of a pilot project undertaken by Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. In the summer of 2005, I (along with 1 other Art Center instructor) accompanied 14 Art Center students to participate in a unique, trans-disciplinary, design and project based “start-up” studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 14 design students came from various fields (the trans-disciplinary part), who were challenged to produce a professional project (the design and project based part), with no pre-existing working structure (the start-up studio part). How did this project work? What was …

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Designing Cultural Probes To Study ‘Invisible’ Communitie In Brazil, Andrea Júdice, Marcelo Júdice May 2007

Designing Cultural Probes To Study ‘Invisible’ Communitie In Brazil, Andrea Júdice, Marcelo Júdice

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The objectives of this article are to describe how and for what reasons probes can be applied for working with marginalised communities and to discuss the complexities involved in create probes for people with poor skills in reading and writing. People in these communities have a low level of education and a high level of health problems, live below the poverty line in slums, and are considered “invisible” by other, professedly “developed” communities. The applied Probe Packages were developed on the basis of information received from health area specialists and ethnographic data. We conclude that, despite the time consumed, the …

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Interaction Design And Service Design: Expanding A Comparison Of Design Disciplines, Stefan Holmlid May 2007

Interaction Design And Service Design: Expanding A Comparison Of Design Disciplines, Stefan Holmlid

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While product design and interaction design are establishing themselves as ordinary practices, service design is still largely not well understood. Moreover, interactive artefacts are being introduced into service settings in a larger degree than before. We tend to rely on these artefacts as one, or sometimes the sole, possibility to do banking, to declare our taxes, etc. In this article we seek to identify common ground and differentiation in order to create supportive structures between interaction design and service design. The analysis relies on two frameworks, one provided by Buchanan, defining orders of design, and one provided by Edeholt and …

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Mapping The Meaning Of Knowledge In Design Research, Kristina Niedderer May 2007

Mapping The Meaning Of Knowledge In Design Research, Kristina Niedderer

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Knowledge plays a vital role in our life in that it reflects how we understand the world around us and thus determines how we act upon it. In this sense, knowledge is of particular importance for designers because they act to shape our world. Conventionally, knowledge creation has been assumed by (design) research. However developments of using practice within research have pointed to knowledge creation within and through practice. This has raised the question about the meaning, role and format of knowledge in both research and practice, and about the compatibility between both. In due course, the research presented in …

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Framing Innovation In Co-Design Sessions With Everyday People., Salu Ylirisku, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Jacob Buur May 2007

Framing Innovation In Co-Design Sessions With Everyday People., Salu Ylirisku, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Jacob Buur

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This article presents how the framing of co-design events in the emerging field of User-Driven Innovation can be facilitated to deliver relevant design results. The new challenges stemming from the open design briefs are discussed in the light of a concept design project with ageing workers.

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Domestication As Design Intervention., Sara Routarinne May 2007

Domestication As Design Intervention., Sara Routarinne

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The article reports a study in which design prototypes where domesticated in different households in order to collect responses to them. These responses were then compared to the intentions that were articulated by the designers in a previous study, and embedded in the design of the design prototypes. The results indicate that some of the intentions were found whereas others were not. For example, the scenarios for use presented by the designers were not realized in actual use. Nevertheless, the more abstract intentions articulated for these prototypes were found. On the one hand, the results suggest that design prototypes act …

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Inquiry Into Libraries: Design Approach To Children’S Interactive Library, Eva Eriksson, Peter Gall Krogh, Andreas Lykke-Olesen May 2007

Inquiry Into Libraries: Design Approach To Children’S Interactive Library, Eva Eriksson, Peter Gall Krogh, Andreas Lykke-Olesen

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This article reports on a design process of pervasive computing installations for a children’s interactive library. The design process involved a wide range of decisive parties of the domain and the process was designed so that the collectively developed design concepts could suit the needs and interests of the many parties. Narratives and sketches were used for inquiries and communication, and the concepts and their iterations illustrate the process ofdesign and how the physical qualities of the environment and the artefacts played a central role in the development of the concepts.

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Personal Theory Towards A Model Of Knowledge Development For Design Practitioners, Grete Refsum May 2007

Personal Theory Towards A Model Of Knowledge Development For Design Practitioners, Grete Refsum

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What does theory mean for design practitioners?

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Ethical Implications Of Design Practices: The Case Of Industrially Manufactured Patient Clothing In Finland, Sonja Iltanen May 2007

Ethical Implications Of Design Practices: The Case Of Industrially Manufactured Patient Clothing In Finland, Sonja Iltanen

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In the following article, we describe the actors and practices influencing design of patient clothing in Finland. We also discuss the ethical dimensions and issues that can be identified in this process and in decisions concerning patient clothing. In our data, designing patient clothing is represented as a highly complex net of conflicting needs. According to our findings ethical issues in patient design were associated with ethical principles of efficiency, beneficence, privacy and autonomy.

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Design Education: Student And Market Expectations, Eva Brandt May 2007

Design Education: Student And Market Expectations, Eva Brandt

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In resent years the two main design schools in Denmark (Danmarks Designskole1 and Designskolen Kolding2) undergo many changes. The overall goal for both is to obtain status as a university, and they will be evaluated in this regard in 2010. Transforming a vocational school with long handicraft traditions into a research based institution for higher education is demanding. Danmarks Designskole is in the middle of this process, many activities are initiated, both employees and students are involved, and from outside representatives from various design professions. The design process has many stakeholders with various interests and opinions. The aim it is …

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Super Studio: Clarity And Ambiguity In Probes, Lisa Nugent, Sean Donahue, Ilpo Koskinen May 2007

Super Studio: Clarity And Ambiguity In Probes, Lisa Nugent, Sean Donahue, Ilpo Koskinen

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This article describes how Super Studio, an annual design class given at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, has used cultural probes not only to bring clarity to the research object, but also to shape a pre-design research space through leveraging several types of ambiguity. The research model strengthens the analysis and interpretation of data from probes, while fostering design projects that reflect the daily realities (and the desires) of the population studied. Further, it provides a specific means for reconfiguring data as design interventions through the exhibition format. As the article's case study illustrates, the fluidity of …

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Conducting Form: The Use Of Gestural Hand Movement As A Part Of The Digital Design Tool-Set., Tavs Jørgensen May 2007

Conducting Form: The Use Of Gestural Hand Movement As A Part Of The Digital Design Tool-Set., Tavs Jørgensen

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This article describes a practice based research project undertaken at the Autonomatic Digital Research Cluster at University College Falmouth.

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Evaluating Three Tools For User-Centered Materials Selection, Ilse Van Kesteren, Sjef De Bruijn, Pieter-Jan Stappers May 2007

Evaluating Three Tools For User-Centered Materials Selection, Ilse Van Kesteren, Sjef De Bruijn, Pieter-Jan Stappers

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Three tools were recently developed for assisting product designers and clients in discussing userinteraction aspects of materials for new products. After using the tools, product designers are expected to start a more effective materials search than without using the tools. The first tool defines the user-interaction via pictures of product examples and the materials these products are made of (pictures tool). The second tool focuses on the sensorial aspects of materials via tangible materials (samples tool) and the third tool focuses on the sensorial aspects of materials during several phases of the user-product interaction (questions tool). In this article we …

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Participatory Design Of A Cross-Media Community For Societal Action: Lessons From Avatopia, Ylva Gislén, Jonas Löwgren, Ulf Myrestam May 2007

Participatory Design Of A Cross-Media Community For Societal Action: Lessons From Avatopia, Ylva Gislén, Jonas Löwgren, Ulf Myrestam

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A cross-media platform was designed for a community of young teenagers oriented towards societal change, a task which motivated a deeply sociotechnical participatory design process. The final outcome involved an interactive web forum featuring creative and communicative collaborative tools in a 3D avatar environment, combined with a weekly show in national public-service television. An assessment of our work indicates that a participatory design process, where participants transition into the role of mentors and norm carriers upon deployment, can be a feasible way to support subcultural community building towards »difficult« topics, even though it entails considerable resource demands. This result is …

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Femalegaze Meets Undressman, Magnus Mörck, Magdalena Petersson May 2007

Femalegaze Meets Undressman, Magnus Mörck, Magdalena Petersson

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While Dressmann is a large Norwegian-owned men’s wears chain store, highly visible in Swedish malls, Undressmann only exists in the imagination of the creators of the Hunks of Hisingen Island– a calender of male pin-ups published in Sweden for 2006. Three women recruited the men, took the photographs, designed the calendar discussed in our article, they arranged its printing and distribution, including a catwalk event, where the men were put on live display. Hunks of Hisingen is an example of women designing a commodity and marketing the product, which is the spectacle of young attractive men posing for a female …

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Types Of Fashion Design And Pattern-Making Practice, Timo Rissanen May 2007

Types Of Fashion Design And Pattern-Making Practice, Timo Rissanen

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This article originates from a PhD research project that investigates the elimination of fabric waste from the production of clothing. Most efforts to reduce the amount of fabric waste have centred on various types of marker-making software that place the garment pieces on a length of fabric as tightly as possible. Despite these efforts, in adult outerwear on average 15 percent of the total fabric used is wasted at the cutting out stage, according to Cooklin (1997: 9). Feyerabend’s estimate is 10 to 20 percent (2004: 4), while Abernathy, Dunlop et al. (1999: 136) put the figure at 10 percent …

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Audience Participation In A Dance-Club Context: Design Of A System For Collaborative Creation Of Visuals, Gerrit Kaiser, Gustav Ekblad, Linnéa Broling May 2007

Audience Participation In A Dance-Club Context: Design Of A System For Collaborative Creation Of Visuals, Gerrit Kaiser, Gustav Ekblad, Linnéa Broling

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We investigated possibilities of improved interaction between artist and audience in the context of the dance club culture. Music club events are already highly interactive and collaborative experiences, so we focused on the role of media and amateur content creation. We identified a number of design challenges and constraints and developed a design concept accordingly. Our system allows for audience members to collaborate with a professional VJ (“video-” or “visual jockey”) in the selection and creation of live visuals that will be displayed alongside and fitting to the music on a screen at the dance-floor. The audience members interact with …

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A Social Language Of Objects And Artifacts: Concepts Of Materiality In Practice-Based Approaches To Knowing In Organization, Connie Svabo May 2007

A Social Language Of Objects And Artifacts: Concepts Of Materiality In Practice-Based Approaches To Knowing In Organization, Connie Svabo

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This article is an inquiry about design. It gives an introductory overview to the vocabulary of ‘materiality’, which is used by a chosen selection of social theories. The article shows a language of artifacts and objects as it is used within practice-based approaches to knowing in organization.

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Fear And Design; How Can Design Impact On Fear? How Can Design Raise Questions About Fear?, Jenny Bergström May 2007

Fear And Design; How Can Design Impact On Fear? How Can Design Raise Questions About Fear?, Jenny Bergström

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This ongoing practice based research project investigates how design can work with or against fear, raise questions about fear and how rules about fear can be used in the design process.

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Institution, Organisation, Space: Reading Seattle Public Library And Sendai Mediatheque, Henric Benesch May 2007

Institution, Organisation, Space: Reading Seattle Public Library And Sendai Mediatheque, Henric Benesch

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In this article Seattle Public Library designed by OMA/LMN and Sendai Mediatheque designed by Toyo Ito are investigated as specific operational modes when it comes to the relation between institution, organisation and space. These modes suggests fundamentaly different attitudes towards change and the future unknown, and where the spatial design is a key factor. This article investigates spatial design as a integral part in the shaping of institutional and organisational practices.

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Abstractness Of Mediating Artifacts As Probes, Young-Ae Hahn, Judith Gregory May 2007

Abstractness Of Mediating Artifacts As Probes, Young-Ae Hahn, Judith Gregory

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This research investigates mediating artifacts as probes that have been used to explore current and future user needs in knowledge exchange between design researchers and the users of future products and services. Four types of mediating artifacts as probes are reviewed: Design Games, Cultural Probes, Generative Techniques, and Behavioral Prototyping. Design researchers variously found the following methodological advantages of mediating artifacts: (a) eliciting situated user needs, (b) eliciting divergent perspectives and needs, (c) supporting participants’ idea generation that leads to design solution ideas, (d) documenting elicited concrete and abstract types of knowledge, (e) revealing propositional, practical and sensuous knowledge, and …

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A Collaboratively Produced Do-It-Yourself Newsarticle, Kjen Wilkens, Clara Blasco López, Yekta Gürel, Victoria Pérez May 2007

A Collaboratively Produced Do-It-Yourself Newsarticle, Kjen Wilkens, Clara Blasco López, Yekta Gürel, Victoria Pérez

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In this article we explore the possibilities of producing, sharing and consuming self-produced media in cafés. We developed a concept for a newsarticle which is produced with very simple and intuitive tools such as pen, article and scissors. The Newsarticle is entirely produced and printed in a café by its visitors. We connect the concept to the punk fanzine movement of the late 70s and 80s when the upcoming photocopier and the simplicity of the tools lead to a large amount of DIY (do it yourself) fan magazines so called"fanzines".

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Understanding The Essence Of Environmentally Sound Products: Some Insights Into Ecoluxury Design., Piia Rytilahti, Minna Uotila, Maxim Narbrough May 2007

Understanding The Essence Of Environmentally Sound Products: Some Insights Into Ecoluxury Design., Piia Rytilahti, Minna Uotila, Maxim Narbrough

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The study presents a conceptual framework for sustainable goods relative to their environmental aspects. The fundamental theoretical perspective chosen for the present project views the phenomenon of sustainable development and environmentally sound design in the light of Karl Popper’s thinking. The thinking has led us to distinguish two paradigms of environmentally sound design, which define the phenomenon of sustainability on the level of form and content. In between the two main approaches of Finnish hunting pursuits there is now emerging a new form of outdoor-culture. In the new culture, the traditions of trekking in the wilderness are melding with the …

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'Architectural Gaits': Architectures As Technologies And Techniques, Katrine Lotz May 2007

'Architectural Gaits': Architectures As Technologies And Techniques, Katrine Lotz

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Attempts to describe and define ‘the role of the architect’ or the notion of architecture ‘itself’, often inherit a displacement between the interests in processes and the interests in interpretations of, or preceptions for either the results as ‘good quality’ or for the practise as ‘good conduct’. They tend to produce rigid models of the design-process, sociologically reducing explanations or mere ethical judgements. (Lawson, Cuff, Lundequist, Effekt:42) With this blurred and blurring difference as a point of departure, the interest in the competencies and strategies performed in the processes gets difficult conditions. The quests for the essences of either ‘Architecture’ …

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Conceptualisations In Design Research, Leif Östman May 2007

Conceptualisations In Design Research, Leif Östman

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This is a design theoretical article and a mapping and explanations of different types of conceptualisations within the field of design. The aim Is to clarify the aim and position of design theory, In relation to design and design research. The article distinguishes six different types of conceptualisations and ends with some questions regarding how design theory and research quality can be promoted.

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Fabrics In Function: Emotional Utility Values, Anne Louise Bang May 2007

Fabrics In Function: Emotional Utility Values, Anne Louise Bang

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In recent years the challenges for the textile industry has changed because of technological development and outsourcing. The consequence is an increased focus on innovation in the textile trade. This article describes the objectives in a three year research project. In order to contribute to the establishment of an initial framework for the project it has a focus on how to explore costumers and users emotional experiences with fabrics. The three year research project is based on experimental design research and the textile designer’s competences and knowledge. During the research project exploring approaches will be developed and carried out with …

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Configuration Practices Of Service Technicians, Larisa Sitorus, Jacob Buur May 2007

Configuration Practices Of Service Technicians, Larisa Sitorus, Jacob Buur

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The increasing need for interactive and configurable technologies in the field of industrial refrigeration seems to push the direction of research towards gaining a better understanding about both the practice of and tools for configuring. In this article, we present three vignettes of configuration practices based on ethnographic studies of service technicians in the field of industrial refrigeration. To further expand our understanding about the complexity of technician’s work and configuration practice, we incorporate both design and participatory approaches to involve users in elaborating about the ways in which their practice is influenced by their colleagues,work organization and technology. In …

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