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Identities And [Changing] Identities: A Crossroads Of Cultures, Translation, And Digital Innovation, Valeria Bucchetti, Anna Barbara, José Allard, Peter Scupelli, Reejy Atef Abdelatty Mikhail Oct 2023

Identities And [Changing] Identities: A Crossroads Of Cultures, Translation, And Digital Innovation, Valeria Bucchetti, Anna Barbara, José Allard, Peter Scupelli, Reejy Atef Abdelatty Mikhail

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Will the design system be emancipated enough to contribute to the transformation processes of identities in different cultural contexts? The notion of identity constitutes a fundamental axis for reflecting on design’s renewal and transformations. Identity is not immutable; it transforms with growth and social changes from a multicultural and intercultural perspective. The paper critiques the contributions submitted to the Identities and [Changing] Identities track for the tenth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2023). The contributions reflect on four main areas: cultural identity concerning the identity roots of design, the authorial identities with their poetics, …

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Changing Products Through New Advancements In Design, Chiara Colombi, Venere Ferraro, Kwanmyung Kim Oct 2023

Changing Products Through New Advancements In Design, Chiara Colombi, Venere Ferraro, Kwanmyung Kim

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The present article discusses the importance of new processes, emerging materials, and new technologies as key strategies for conceiving, designing, and producing innovative products and systems. Over the past decade, advancements in these fields have significantly influenced how products and systems are conceptualized and designed, impacting the entire value chain and the methods for creating and changing business models. This transformation enables speculation and the crafting of new artifacts and future scenarios by altering how products are developed, upgraded, and updated, offering benefits in idea creation, experimentation, testing, and sustainability. The article presents the main topics through the subjects of …

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Designing Innovative Research Pathways For The Advancement Of Design Research: Iasdr 2023 Doctoral And Postgraduate Consortium, Paola Bertola, Elena Elgani, Clorinda Sissi Galasso, Peter Gall Krogh, Anna Meroni, Lucia Rampino Oct 2023

Designing Innovative Research Pathways For The Advancement Of Design Research: Iasdr 2023 Doctoral And Postgraduate Consortium, Paola Bertola, Elena Elgani, Clorinda Sissi Galasso, Peter Gall Krogh, Anna Meroni, Lucia Rampino

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The paper explores relevant themes for design research that arose from research works proposed for IASDR2023 and developed by doctoral candidates and recent master's degree graduates. Particular attention has been paid to research investigations that reflect on the theme of Life-Changing Design, specifically examining how design is responding to the transformations occurring in the contemporary period. Reflections on the soft impact of technologies, in particular digital technologies, on daily life are accompanied by an analysis of innovations and challenges faced by healthcare systems, products, and services. This is followed by an examination of social innovation themes and practices, and the …

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Embracing Digital Offboarding As A Design Challenge, Sabine Junginger Oct 2023

Embracing Digital Offboarding As A Design Challenge, Sabine Junginger

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Most services we will use or rely on in the future will either contain a digital component or be fully digital. Given the multitude of pressures that are currently reshaping the public sector, great efforts are underway to increase the range of digital public service offerings. Design research and design practice currently contribute to the development of innovative digital public services. In addition, designers support the onboarding experience for people working in public administrations and the members of the public who benefit from or depend on these. This paper argues that we need to explore the needs and implications of …

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Digital For Heritage And Museums: Design-Driven Changes And Challenges, Eleonora Lupo, Giuseppe Camosino, Beatrice Gobbo, Martina Motta, Michele Mauri, Marina Parente, Elena Spadoni, Davide Spallazzo, Federica Rubino Oct 2023

Digital For Heritage And Museums: Design-Driven Changes And Challenges, Eleonora Lupo, Giuseppe Camosino, Beatrice Gobbo, Martina Motta, Michele Mauri, Marina Parente, Elena Spadoni, Davide Spallazzo, Federica Rubino

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In the recent decade, cultural institutions have increasingly embraced digital technologies as key resources for accomplishing their mission and innovating their cultural activities. In the present work, we attempt to disentangle through a design-driven and multidisciplinary approach the challenges brought by digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector. A diversified research team has thus been involved to include scholars with different backgrounds around the common phenomenon of investigation of Digital (Cultural) Heritage, under the Design Think Thank project. The Introduction is followed by a Methodological section, which outlines the approach to select and review case studies from the exploratory literature …

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"Design Laboratories System As A Tool To Enable Interdisciplinary Design Learning: Analysis Of Common Approaches And New Perspectives.", Nicola Besana, Mauro Attilio Ceconello Oct 2023

"Design Laboratories System As A Tool To Enable Interdisciplinary Design Learning: Analysis Of Common Approaches And New Perspectives.", Nicola Besana, Mauro Attilio Ceconello

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Design Laboratories Systems (DLS) have become a crucial component of design schools and institutions, allowing students to learn actively design concepts and techniques through prototyping. The fast-paced changes in today's technological paradigm have led to new ways of learning and prototyping support services and open-access resources, highlighting the need to re-evaluate the effectiveness of existing lab models and explore fresh opportunities for interdisciplinary innovation and advancement. The study underlines the impact of (i) the diffusion of new prototyping technologies, (ii) the proliferation of Fab labs, (iii) the growth of open-access digital libraries and online communities, and (iv) the emergence of …

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Offline And Online Collaboration In Providing Service Design Projects For Social Innovation To Villages: A Co-Creative Action In Quanzhou, Chenfan Zhang, Valentina Auricchio Oct 2023

Offline And Online Collaboration In Providing Service Design Projects For Social Innovation To Villages: A Co-Creative Action In Quanzhou, Chenfan Zhang, Valentina Auricchio

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In the field of rural revitalization, social innovation is seen as an added value for government institutions in contributing to a more prosperous society. Villages have gained increasing attention recently for achieving social innovation goals. With the support of social networks, there are many actors who can participate in the design of social innovation processes enhancing citizens' abilities to contribute . Meanwhile, The design community has developed many collaborative processes to contribute to this field, but these collaboration practices are largely local in nature and do not consider integrating online and offline collaboration. In 2022, CSDC (Chinese Service Design Community) …

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Social Innovation For Climate Neutrality In Cities: Actionable Pathways For Policymakers, Sabrina Bresciani, Cyril Tjahja, Tamami Komatsu, Francesca Rizzo Oct 2023

Social Innovation For Climate Neutrality In Cities: Actionable Pathways For Policymakers, Sabrina Bresciani, Cyril Tjahja, Tamami Komatsu, Francesca Rizzo

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Climate neutrality is an urgent and complex challenge that cannot be solved with technological solutions alone but requires a systemic approach. Social innovation is a key lever of change in socio-technical transformations: promoting social innovation at urban level can empower communities in shaping sustainable behaviour and collective action to tackle climate change. To promote and scale social innovation at urban level for reaching climate neutrality, politicians and policymakers need to be aware of effective practices that can be implemented that match a city’s readiness level. With the aim to develop a framework to support public administrations and policymakers in making …

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A Personality-Centred Design Approach For Virtual Humans On Correspondence With Roles And Behaviors, Shi Chen, Zhiying Zhu, Xiaodong Wang, Yuyang Zhang, Suqi Lou, Wei Xiang Oct 2023

A Personality-Centred Design Approach For Virtual Humans On Correspondence With Roles And Behaviors, Shi Chen, Zhiying Zhu, Xiaodong Wang, Yuyang Zhang, Suqi Lou, Wei Xiang

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With the gradual lowering of technological threshold and the increasing penetration rate of virtual reality and augmented reality devices, virtual humans (VHs) are increasingly intermediating users and information systems in various contexts. As a projection of VH's anthropomorphic stability, a set of personality traits is used to present contents and guide the generation of human-like behaviors. The large variety of VHs poses a challenge to their systematic design. This paper tries to establish an approach to practising a personality-centred design with consideration of other accompanying components. At first, the integrity of the VH personality is constructed, along with a personality …

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Textile Autobiographies: Crafting Shifting Identities With Refugee Communities, Francesco Mazzarella, Seher Mirza Oct 2023

Textile Autobiographies: Crafting Shifting Identities With Refugee Communities, Francesco Mazzarella, Seher Mirza

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With the rising mass displacement of people, rethinking and addressing the needs and aspirations of refugee communities and honouring their diverse cultures is needed. Historically, the textile heritage of minorities has often been subjected to cultural appropriation practices or systematically undervalued and ‘othered’ as ‘non-fashion’. Designers are often ‘parachuted’ into marginalised or disadvantaged communities premised on bringing their own knowledge and expertise to solve other people’s problems. However, there is growing recognition of the need to ‘decolonise’ such dominant approaches in collaborative design practice. Instead of re-enacting dominant power narratives, London-based refugees and asylum seekers were engaged in storytelling sessions …

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What`S The Social Trust Mechanism Blending Virtual And Reality In The Context Of Digital Media?, Yunlu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Tongwen Sun, Mingshuo Zhang Oct 2023

What`S The Social Trust Mechanism Blending Virtual And Reality In The Context Of Digital Media?, Yunlu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Tongwen Sun, Mingshuo Zhang

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In the current era of digitalization, trust has emerged as a crucial factor in socialisation through digital media. However, due to the uncertain nature of individual identities in the digital realm, it poses a challenge to translate social trust in virtual identities into social trust in real identities, particularly for social activities that necessitate a blend of online and offline integration. The outbreak of catastrophic public health crises such as COVID-19 in recent years has had a profound impact on people's social trust in the physical world. By scrutinising the attributes of social trust, this study advocates three distinct categories …

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Service Co-Design To Envision The Transformation Of Museums, Annamaria Recupero, Patrizia Marti, Georg Regal, Andreas Sackl Oct 2023

Service Co-Design To Envision The Transformation Of Museums, Annamaria Recupero, Patrizia Marti, Georg Regal, Andreas Sackl

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This paper presents an ongoing co-design project to develop new services to make cultural heritage accessible and engaging for older people with disability, even beyond the museums’ context. A group of stakeholders including museum staff, older adults, healthcare professionals, designers, technology providers, and accessibility experts were involved in reflective and hands-on creative activities to develop a future-based vision of barrier-free cultural experiences. The project serves to support the innovation of the cultural sector beyond the digital transformation: indeed, the new services are not limited to the adoption of key enabling technologies, rather they call for new areas of intervention outside …

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Material Connaissance As A Tacit Knowledge Co-Creation Method, Spyros Bofylatos, Niki Boukouvala Oct 2023

Material Connaissance As A Tacit Knowledge Co-Creation Method, Spyros Bofylatos, Niki Boukouvala

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This paper builds on a model developed to engage in shared material experience in a protocol inspired by wine tasting: the Material Connaissance Method. In this paper the theoretical framework and motivation is discussed. In the first section the material experience model based on wine tasting protocols is briefly presented, followed by a literature review in the fields of material experience and tacit knowledge co-creation. The paper concludes with a reflection of the initial pilots of the protocol and their theoretical repercussions. The main contribution of the paper is the proposal of a framework for engaging in research through design …

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Visual And Spatial Design For Proximity Healthcare: The Meta-Design Book Of “Case E Ospedali Di Comunità” Of Regione Lombardia, Andrea Manciaracina, Melania Vicentini, Barbara Camocini, Luisa Collina Oct 2023

Visual And Spatial Design For Proximity Healthcare: The Meta-Design Book Of “Case E Ospedali Di Comunità” Of Regione Lombardia, Andrea Manciaracina, Melania Vicentini, Barbara Camocini, Luisa Collina

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The Covid experience has prompted public institutions to develop and try new strategies to better address healthcare facilities to the citizens and their community: the so-called proximity healthcare. It treats the user as a guest, conveying a feeling of home and hospitality. Like landmarks, these structures can be considered territorial references, inclusive and enabling support to patients and the local community. In addition, the act of caring and responsibility towards others and the community is fostered through the inclusion and welcoming of the individual within the community itself. Regione Lombardia received funds from the national Recovery and Resilience Plan to …

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Identifying Meaningful User Experiences With Autonomous Products: A Case Study In Fundamental User Needs In Fully Autonomous Vehicles., Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain, Willem Van Der Maden, Siyuan Huang, Euiyoung Kim Oct 2023

Identifying Meaningful User Experiences With Autonomous Products: A Case Study In Fundamental User Needs In Fully Autonomous Vehicles., Garoa Gomez-Beldarrain, Willem Van Der Maden, Siyuan Huang, Euiyoung Kim

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Autonomous products (e.g., home cleaning robots, smart fridges, or autonomous vehicles) take over tasks that require time and effort from their users, redefining both the user roles and context around a product. Consequently, meaningful user experiences should be designed to overcome the risk of relegating humans to undesirable tasks and to take the opportunity of employing users’ newly available time, in contexts such as highly automated vehicles. Meaningful experiences are provided when fundamental user needs (i.e., universal needs that directly contribute to our wellbeing) are fulfilled. Nevertheless, designers face challenges in anticipating and fulfilling user needs related to autonomous products, …

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A Layered Approach To Designing Public Health Communication Diagram For Improved Information Accessibility, Young Ae Hahn, Byoungkwan Oh, Inhye Hwang Oct 2023

A Layered Approach To Designing Public Health Communication Diagram For Improved Information Accessibility, Young Ae Hahn, Byoungkwan Oh, Inhye Hwang

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Public health communication (PHC) material design requires information accessibility, consideration of the readers’ health literacy, prior knowledge levels, and the depth–length of information the reader can process without feeling too much cognitive burden. We proposed a layered approach to PHC diagram design: providing multi-layered (basic, extended) information, to support the reader’s cognitive activities of recognition and inference-making, while the basic layer reduces some readers’ cognitive loads. A qualitative test conducted with an example layered diagram of how COVID-19 vaccination works confirmed that (1) the college-educated readers in their 20s have an insufficient level of prior knowledge of vaccination and the …

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Aqueous Logics: Towards A Hydro Feminism Approach To Sustainability, Beatrice Maggipinto, Valentina Nisi, Sarah Fox, Nuno Nunes, Tom Ainsworth Oct 2023

Aqueous Logics: Towards A Hydro Feminism Approach To Sustainability, Beatrice Maggipinto, Valentina Nisi, Sarah Fox, Nuno Nunes, Tom Ainsworth

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In the popular imagination, sustainability is often synonymous with environmentalism, but it encapsulates much more. While environmentalism and conservation are often a focal point of sustainability efforts, so too are the people who impact the environment through their actions and associated activism. In this paper, we examine the discourse on sustainability, nature conservation and climate change. We focus, in particular, on the relationship between humans and the seas, where three main topics entangle: eco-feminism, ocean conservation and well-being. This paper highlights its implications for research on sustainability, nature conservation and climate change by outlining an aqueous logic — a fluid …

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Future Systemic And Value Mapping As A Tool For Peace And Deliberation, Juan Alfonso De La Rosa, Diana María Mahecha Oct 2023

Future Systemic And Value Mapping As A Tool For Peace And Deliberation, Juan Alfonso De La Rosa, Diana María Mahecha

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This paper introduces the work with communities coming from the armed conflict in Colombia as ex-combatants trying to build a lasting state of peace and the use of design research methodologies of participation and deliberation using value-mapping and future systemic mapping to produce collective plans, decide on strategic actions and create infrastructure to facilitate their intentions. Through the paper, the methodology is reviewed, and the participatory research process is described; based on the first stage of the research, some initial reflections and findings are presented regarding alternative use of the methodology and possible positive and negative effects.

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Designing Interfaces For Text-To-Image Prompt Engineering Using Stable Diffusion Models: A Human-Ai Interaction Approach, Seonuk Kim, Taeyoung Ko, Yousang Kwon, Kyungho Lee Oct 2023

Designing Interfaces For Text-To-Image Prompt Engineering Using Stable Diffusion Models: A Human-Ai Interaction Approach, Seonuk Kim, Taeyoung Ko, Yousang Kwon, Kyungho Lee

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The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is more vital ever than before to create new content, especially images. Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image diffusion models showed the potential to drastically change the way we approach image content creation. However, artists still face challenges when attempting to create images that reflect their specific themes and formats, as the current generative systems, such as Stable Diffusion models, require the right prompts to achieve the desired artistic outputs. In this paper, we propose future design considerations to develop more intuitive and effective interfaces that can be used for text-to-image prompt engineering from a …

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The Role Of Participatory Transition Design In Mitigating Erosion Of Participatory Democracy, Alma Leora Culén Oct 2023

The Role Of Participatory Transition Design In Mitigating Erosion Of Participatory Democracy, Alma Leora Culén

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Democracies increasingly face challenges. Focusing on participatory democracy, we explore their intersection with the participatory design of digital technology that might strengthen rather than undermine local participatory democracy initiatives. Two influential examples found at the intersection of participatory design, technological innovation and democracy are discussed and contrasted with our approach to understanding this entanglement by looking into opportunities for small, local communities to develop and maintaining democratic discourse, trust, and good decision-making, potentially paving ways to mitigate democratic erosion at a larger scale. The work contributes by showing how participatory and transition design might be integrated. Further, we propose and …

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A Study On The Sense Of Being Alive Expressed In Motion, Ongon Witthayathada, Youngil Cho Oct 2023

A Study On The Sense Of Being Alive Expressed In Motion, Ongon Witthayathada, Youngil Cho

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Nonverbal communication has played an important role in society from prehistoric times until the present day. Motion graphics are a potent visual communication tool that not only transmits messages but also influences audience perception. Studying the effect of motion factors on human perception can enhance our understanding of human feeling and mechanism, which can lead to the development of new innovations. In this study, the sense of being alive was investigated due to its potential value in media and product development. What are the factors that influenced with the feeling of a sense of being alive? This question was raised. …

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Data Challenge. Re-Thinking The Library As A Learning Space To Intersect Youth, Culture And Gender Diversity., Elena Formia, Valentina Gianfrate, Simona Colitti, Margherita Ascari, Lorela Mehmeti Oct 2023

Data Challenge. Re-Thinking The Library As A Learning Space To Intersect Youth, Culture And Gender Diversity., Elena Formia, Valentina Gianfrate, Simona Colitti, Margherita Ascari, Lorela Mehmeti

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on public spaces, which has become an urban variable that changes people's mindset and perception about their use, fruition, affection, and considerations. The Data Challenge project research identifies a common thread between gender-related data, public spaces of libraries and the approach of younger generations to cultural facilities. Service design methodologies can support change in the public sector and foster democratic processes in the co-creation of knowledge. The research uses two main pillars: design research and practices to innovate existing services for young people and "Citizens as scientists" processes to analyse quantitative and …

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Colour In Virtual Classroom: Effects Of Colour Schemes And Interior Elements On Students’ Preference And Attention, Dajeong Jang, Kyungah Choi Oct 2023

Colour In Virtual Classroom: Effects Of Colour Schemes And Interior Elements On Students’ Preference And Attention, Dajeong Jang, Kyungah Choi

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Well-designed virtual learning environments have the potential to improve human emotions, attention, and engagement, leading to enhanced learning outcomes for students. Colour is a vital component of design that can significantly improve cognitive abilities in virtual environments. However, there is a scarcity of research on colour experience in virtual environments, with a lack of understanding the impact of utilising colours on distinct interior elements in a given space. This study is to explore the impact of colour schemes and interior colour configurations on subjective and cognitive responses of attention in a virtual classroom. The experiment followed a 3 × 6 …

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Mapping The Research Landscape Of The Gig Work For Design On Labour Research, Shuhao Ma, Valentina Nisi, John Zimmerman, Nuno Nunes Oct 2023

Mapping The Research Landscape Of The Gig Work For Design On Labour Research, Shuhao Ma, Valentina Nisi, John Zimmerman, Nuno Nunes

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Economic activities are built on several essential factors such as capital, technology, and notably, labour. Despite extensive exploration of economic activities in the last decade, prior design research has overlooked the impact of Design on Labour. Designers play crucial roles as creators of gig platforms, yet research on the intersection between design and gig work is lacking. To bridge this gap, we conducted a literature review using grounded theory methodology to scrutinize the contributions of the HCI community to the gig work and gig economy, with the goal of sparking dialogue on the Design on Labour research. This paper revealed …

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Fixing The Future: Cultivating A Capacity To Repair Iot Devices Through Experiential Futures, Matthew Pilling, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton, Thomas Macpherson-Pope Oct 2023

Fixing The Future: Cultivating A Capacity To Repair Iot Devices Through Experiential Futures, Matthew Pilling, Michael Stead, Paul Coulton, Thomas Macpherson-Pope

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As the global consumption of electronic devices continues to grow, so too does the volume of electronic waste (e-waste) that reaches landfill sites, which by 2030, is expected to reach 74.7M tonnes worldwide. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that across Europe less than 40% of e-waste is subject to sustainable recovery and further reinforced by the planned obsolescence of devices. An increasing amount of e-waste can be characterised as so-called ‘smart’ Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paper firstly describes how our research engaged with industry and community stakeholders to explore their perceptions and behaviours relating to electronic …

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Museums At A Crossroads, Licia Calvi Oct 2023

Museums At A Crossroads, Licia Calvi

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What type of museum experiences can be designed when local communities are involved? And where does technology fit? How can museums as places to nurture community engagement also become spaces to have cultural, transformative experiences? Museums and cultural heritage institutions are not only custodians of the some of the world’s most valuable natural and creative works; they are themselves creative institutions that reflect and shape cultural production. Especially since the advent of the New Museology, this creative potential has been understood in interdisciplinary terms, bringing theories and methods such as postcolonial studies and poststructuralism to bear on these processes of …

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Examining The Affordance Effect Of Shifting Symbols On The Virtual Buttons Of Smartphones, Ming-Da Wu, Hsi-Jen Chen Oct 2023

Examining The Affordance Effect Of Shifting Symbols On The Virtual Buttons Of Smartphones, Ming-Da Wu, Hsi-Jen Chen

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The concept of on-screen affordance suggests that the visual properties of digital objects can affect how users perceive their function and operation. This study aimed to investigate the on-screen affordance of virtual buttons on smartphones and examine whether the visual properties of virtual buttons, such as symbol position, would affect users' entry performance on smartphones. To this end, the study has designed a shifting symbol that suggests where to tap on virtual buttons, thereby helping users tap the button center. This study adopted a two-way within-subject design: 2 (symbol position: static mode vs. dynamic mode) × 26 (key position: 26 …

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Change Management By Design. Design As A Flow Improver In Turbulent Times, Valentina De Matteo Oct 2023

Change Management By Design. Design As A Flow Improver In Turbulent Times, Valentina De Matteo

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“One of the most significant facts of our time is the predominance of organizations. Perhaps this is the most significant. It will take time to fully understand its effects on individuals' thinking and behavior. Only a few of them will not be affected by this conditioning process”. If we read this sentence today, for the first time, without knowing its context, date and source, we would first of all be struck by its timeliness. We could also assume that we are dealing with an extract from a publication in the field of economics or business organization aimed at investigating the …

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Museums On-Chain? A Designerly Contribution In The Development Of Blockchain-Based Digital Strategies In Cultural Institutions., Federica Rubino Oct 2023

Museums On-Chain? A Designerly Contribution In The Development Of Blockchain-Based Digital Strategies In Cultural Institutions., Federica Rubino

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Blockchain technologies have been referred to as potential drivers for paradigm shifts in the arts and cultural sector. Their multiple applications in the cultural and creative industries have recently started to be discussed by scholars, mainly coming from social and computer science disciplines. From crypto-collectibles for archiving and documentation purposes to rights management and digital protection, fundraising, and decentralization purposes: the potential use cases of blockchain technologies are varied, as are varied the actors in the cultural and creative ecosystems that have started experimenting with these disruptive technologies. Nevertheless, despite the turmoil experienced from the practitioners’ side, cultural institutions remain …

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Developing A Community-Engaged Homemaking Approach To Elicit A Sense Of Belonging In People With Dementia, Alessandro Biamonti, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Lorenzo Fossi Oct 2023

Developing A Community-Engaged Homemaking Approach To Elicit A Sense Of Belonging In People With Dementia, Alessandro Biamonti, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Lorenzo Fossi

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This paper presents a research-action case which explores how homemaking processes and dynamics, enable people with dementia to create and establish a sense of belonging towards the care environment they are living in, after relocating from their home. In particular, home-making practises encompass the involvement of archetypical elements and material possessions in the form of objects owning an intrinsic emotional value, which are capable of enabling habits, conversations and social interactions. Through the presented case study, we want to investigate their role in contributing to homemaking and placemaking practises. The research encompassed semi-structured interviews, observations, and storytelling focus groups with …

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