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

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

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

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

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

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Research Through Designers: A Pictorial Reflection On Engagements, Encounters, And Environments At A Design Research Jamboree, Arne Berger, Julia Weller, Miriam Sturdee, David Philip Green, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alessandro Soro, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph Lindley Jun 2024

Research Through Designers: A Pictorial Reflection On Engagements, Encounters, And Environments At A Design Research Jamboree, Arne Berger, Julia Weller, Miriam Sturdee, David Philip Green, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alessandro Soro, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph Lindley

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We picture design researchers’ engagement with the task of capturing the value of Research through Design during a week-long event. The images are selected to document set and setting, hands-on activities, human and more-than-human encounters, and material engagements with the theories, methods, and practices of design research. The text is deliberately minimal, offering contextualization from the photographer and the organizer of the event, as well as commentary from attendees on material outcomes and bodily presences; context and environment, disciplinary esthetics; and social commentary from two non-attendees. We offer this record of process to inspire design researchers to further engage with …

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Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros Jun 2024

Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros

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Disabled people, from younger to older adults, are at comparative disadvantage regarding work. Design for inclusion at work tends to focus on individual adaptations (often stigmatising) or general accessibility guidelines (often insufficient). Furthermore, there is a tendency to focus on inability rather than on extreme abilities, which seem to be the ones enabling workers to appropriate existing products and create their own designs. Therefore, design research requires more input from diverse workers as users to inform the design inclusive industrial workstations. Departing from theory and ending with analyses of workers' designs, this paper argues that the articulation of the concept …

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Infrastructuring Sustainable Food Futures: A Case Study In Collaborative Innovation For Circular Seafood, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Serena Pollastri Jun 2024

Infrastructuring Sustainable Food Futures: A Case Study In Collaborative Innovation For Circular Seafood, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Serena Pollastri

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Transitioning to a circular economy requires transforming practices across the Ready-to-cook product value chains through shared knowledge. However, generalised solutions rarely succeed, but must be tailored to each context. This study explores using participatory design-informed “infrastructuring” to collaboratively develop novel methods tailored to stakeholders’ existing practices. The Seafood AGE project serves as a case study. We developed two remote, distributed facilitation methods using accessible digital platforms. These engage stakeholders in mapping current practices, analysing responses to speculative fish products, and exploring feasibility of prototypical circular approaches. Key findings demonstrate the potential of co-creative infrastructuring to bridge design research and industry. …

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A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht Jun 2024

A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht

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The modern world of design is one of constant change and technological progress. One emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the design is additive manufacturing. This innovative technology challenges existing manufacturing processes to reflect and enable the efficient production of complex and customized objects through reimagination. Design education for additive manufacturing plays a crucial role in educating future designers to resist the adherence to conventional processes and to promote the recovery of innovative thinking. Therefore, it is significant to explore the integration of this emerging technology in academic education and identify the associated chances and challenges to ensure …

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Design Terroir: An Eco-Social, Relational, Bioregional Approach To Design, Adrien Rigobello, Joshua David Evans Jun 2024

Design Terroir: An Eco-Social, Relational, Bioregional Approach To Design, Adrien Rigobello, Joshua David Evans

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Design practices grounded in the modernist yearning for universalism have often been oblivious to forms of local knowledge, and the situated webs of relations, among humans and with other species, they emerge from. In response to the destructive effects of this inattention, growing research has established that ecology and society must be considered together to ensure fair and resilient development. Here, we develop the concept of ‘design terroir’ to describe existing forms of eco-social design and help designers theorise and realise work that contributes to a relational bioregionalist approach. To inform this description, we extend considerations within the food domain …

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Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant Jun 2024

Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant

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Product-Service Digital Twins are an emerging field about which little information is available. To overcome this deficit personas were utilized to elicit domain and user information requirements. As no user data exists for this domain, persona profiles were developed for the domain based on types of decision maker. Control task analysis was applied to the personas as a means of applying a people-centered approach to information gathering. A description is provided of how the control task analysis methodology is modified for use with the personas. Examples of the personas developed and the information gathered are given. This approach is shown …

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Three’S Company: Situation-Problem-Solution Co-Evolution, Luke Feast Jun 2024

Three’S Company: Situation-Problem-Solution Co-Evolution, Luke Feast

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This paper reports the results of a study examining the co-evolution of design situations, problems, and solutions. The research method is a longitudinal study tracking the creative problem-solving processes of 4 MSc student design teams on an industrial design project. The data includes observations, interviews, field notes, and documents. Visual mapping and temporal bracketing analysis tech-niques reveal insights into the teams' design processes. The results provide evidence that integrating effectuation enabled some teams to pivot their projects by co-evolving the situation, problem, and solution spaces simultaneously. This finding suggests designers can shape situations through effectuation, rather than just passively respond …

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Reimagining Sustainable Mobility Futures: Exploring Design Imaginariums For City-Wide Challenges, Jen Ballie, Fraser Bruce Jun 2024

Reimagining Sustainable Mobility Futures: Exploring Design Imaginariums For City-Wide Challenges, Jen Ballie, Fraser Bruce

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This exploratory paper presents an approach known as 'Design Imaginariums,' pop-up spaces based on speculative design principles and community driven cre-ative problem-solving to address systemic city-wide challenges. Drawing inspira-tion and insights from a one-day design sprint and a real-world prototype that fo-cused on mobility urban futures, these pop-up spaces serve as platforms to ac-tively involve citizens in the design process, prompting responsive ideas and rec-ommendations from city stakeholders. The paper begins by discussing the back-ground and motivations to initiate the research, elaborating on the City of Dun-dee’s aspirations for creating ecologically vibrant and socially inclusive urban spaces. It then outlines …

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Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton Jun 2024

Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton

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Futures thinking, and doing, has been the domain of the privileged majority for centuries. The very idea of ‘the future’ (singular) was fundamental to the crea-tion and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity. To this day, mainstream media readily emits the narrow and repetitive science fic-tion tropes void of (realistic, fair) representation of a wider inclusive society, specifically absent of queerness. This paper builds on the work of Alexis Lothian’s ‘Old Futures: speculative fiction and queer possibility’ in which she explores the forces queer people (and other marginalised communities) invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way …

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Design Principles Of The Pluriversal Design Paradigm, Eveline Van Zeeland Jun 2024

Design Principles Of The Pluriversal Design Paradigm, Eveline Van Zeeland

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When scientists embrace a different paradigm, this naturally leads to a shift in aca-demic behavior. While the importance and necessity of the pluriversal design framework are evident, understanding how this paradigm influences academic conduct is less clear. Through a systematic literature review of 103 academic papers on the pluriversal approach, it is deducted what it is that researchers do or suggest to do when shaping their research and design practice through the pluriversal de-sign paradigm. In this study, the pluriversal design paradigm is distilled into a set of foundational prerequisites and design principles. These design principles can be applied by …

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Designer-Maker: Merging Cognition And Construction In Practice-Led Design Research, Laureen Mahler Jun 2024

Designer-Maker: Merging Cognition And Construction In Practice-Led Design Research, Laureen Mahler

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In the decades since the establishment of design research, efforts to identify the nature of design knowledge have repeatedly returned to the question of design’s relationship to science. The resulting debate is often framed by the opposing tenets of positivism and constructivism, and this gap continues to characterize research across the discipline. This paper challenges the paradigmatic divide between cognition and construction through an examination of practice-led design research and, more specifically, a redefinition of the designer-maker. It presents perceptual space as an active, multimodal medium where cognition and construction emerge simultaneously, as evidenced by the work of the designer-maker. …

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Impacting Literacy Through The Power Of A Font: Design Research For Inclusive Reading Experiences, Reneé Seward, Allison Breit, Jennifer Keelor, Jenny Halovick, Nancy Creaghead, Oscar Fernández, Akshat Srivastava, Frida Medrano, Spencer Roberts, Shannon Healey, James Plattner, Lepa Juju Stojanovic Jun 2024

Impacting Literacy Through The Power Of A Font: Design Research For Inclusive Reading Experiences, Reneé Seward, Allison Breit, Jennifer Keelor, Jenny Halovick, Nancy Creaghead, Oscar Fernández, Akshat Srivastava, Frida Medrano, Spencer Roberts, Shannon Healey, James Plattner, Lepa Juju Stojanovic

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Struggling with reading can feel like navigating an endless maze of confusion and frustration for some people. It can weigh heavily on their minds, fostering a sense of inadequacy, isolation, and fear of judgment by others. In the United States, a significant portion of both young and older individuals face these challenges, with statistics showing that 37% of fourth graders and 30% of eighth graders read below basic levels. This paper will detail the development and research of a web-based reading application that leveraged typography and technology to engage struggling readers with their favorite content while improving their foundational reading …

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When A Tree Says No: Towards A More-Than-Human Consent Notion For Design, Franca Lopez Barbera Jun 2024

When A Tree Says No: Towards A More-Than-Human Consent Notion For Design, Franca Lopez Barbera

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A growing body of more-than-human approaches in design reconsider and re-articulate design’s relationship to the natural world through relational frameworks. However, such endeavours do not come without difficulties and may even reproduce the very logics they seek to overcome. Despite the prolific efforts within the design community, overcoming the modern/colonial legacies of design and its anthropocentric paradigm remains a formidable challenge. Departing from the Quebracho Colorado tree as a guiding example, this paper delves into a gender and decolonial analysis of the notion of consent that underscores design’s role in reproducing extractive approaches to nature. It then goes on to …

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Playful Speculative Design: Crafting Preposterous Futures Through Playful Tension, Sofie Kinch, Jess Uhre Rahbek, Stine Behrendtzen Jun 2024

Playful Speculative Design: Crafting Preposterous Futures Through Playful Tension, Sofie Kinch, Jess Uhre Rahbek, Stine Behrendtzen

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This paper explores the imaginative borderland of speculative design, often re-ferred to as 'preposterous futures,' and presents a framework for playful specula-tive design building upon carnivalesque play theory. To operationalize the framework, the concept of ‘playful tensions’ employs three continuums of rele-vance: Firstly, designers should address the ‘purpose’ by navigating the interplay between 'concern and provocation.’ Secondly, the ‘concept’ should be crafted to straddle the boundary between the 'serious and ridiculous,' and thirdly, integrat-ing both 'believable and absurd' elements to scaffold the ‘formgiving’ process. To demonstrate the practical efficacy of the framework, three projects by estab-lished artists and designers are …

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Designing Future Workspaces For Cognitive Aging, Katja Thoring, Patrick Kornherr, Markus Kurz Jun 2024

Designing Future Workspaces For Cognitive Aging, Katja Thoring, Patrick Kornherr, Markus Kurz

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This paper reports on a speculative design project addressing the future workspace. Based on data extrapolation, we assume that by 2048 more people of advanced age will be working in office environments. Consequently, the share of employees suffering from cognitive deficits will significantly increase. Based on this future scenario, a speculative design object has been developed: A cognitive-stimulating desk lamp that could prevent further deterioration of office workers' cognitive abilities through acoustic stimulation. We explore potential technical features of the lamp and address the avoidance of stigmatization and ageism at the workplace. The contribution of the study is twofold: First, …

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Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright Jun 2024

Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright

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The responsibility for sustainable futures extends beyond individual disciplines, necessitating the adoption of diverse approaches across various fields. Water pollution is at epidemic levels, valuable materials go to landfill, ocean detritus grows, many people are disconnected from green space, and biodiversity is plummeting. We need new modes of climate futures, championing citizen agency. Societies require cross-collaborative, inclusive approaches to navigate climate future challenges. We seek to foresee ‘climate futures’ that signpost challenges, unpicking (appropriate) opportunities, benefits, and pitfalls. Through an Ecological Citizenship lens, the authors traverse situations, through preferable futures. It is an entry point for transition design, creating climate …

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If This Street Was Ours: Provoking The Reimagination Of The City As A Democratic Space, Gheysa Prado, Marco Mazzarotto Jun 2024

If This Street Was Ours: Provoking The Reimagination Of The City As A Democratic Space, Gheysa Prado, Marco Mazzarotto

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This paper revisits the event ‘se essa rua fosse nossa’ (if this street was ours) held in 2014, in Curitiba, Brazil, that aimed to provoke, discuss, and propose new ways of thinking and designing the public spaces in the city so they can be more open, accessible, inclusive, and democratic. With the perspective of a decade, the goal is to analyze its positive outcomes in the city, then, and in the present moment. The event consisted of a series of critical and creative activities. Its closure was a pop-up parklet that occupied half a block using urban furniture resulting from …

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Embodying The Driving Experience Through Ai Driving Assistants As A Means Of Noticing The More-Than-Human, Olga Barbara Lackner Jun 2024

Embodying The Driving Experience Through Ai Driving Assistants As A Means Of Noticing The More-Than-Human, Olga Barbara Lackner

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On the road, a shift of agency away from human drivers is taking place with AI-based roadside monitoring and driving assistants. This changes interaction both within the car and with the environment outside of it, mediated by driving assistant algorithms. It also changes encounters with the non-human, framing and evaluating them from a technological lens. This paper aims to show how the human experience of their environment during a car ride is shifted through AI, where encounters with non-human entities are observed and logged by technology, and how this can be used to remediate passengers’ experience of their environment during …

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Using A Mutualistic Design Methodology To Exhibit The Benefits Of “Suboptimal” Product Design, Asa River Jackson Jun 2024

Using A Mutualistic Design Methodology To Exhibit The Benefits Of “Suboptimal” Product Design, Asa River Jackson

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Human-centred design has evolved to the point where much of what is considered optimal is projected as a result of the anthropocentric design process itself. To investigate what unexpected and beneficial outcomes might be produced by intentionally equating the needs of humans and nonhumans, a “Mutualistic Design” methodology was created. This paper discusses the process and results of an exhibition guided by this method, and how it encouraged a dialogue for professionals and academics regarding more-than-human and "suboptimal” design principles. Artefacts included in the exhibition were sitting furniture, coffee tables, walls, a piece of literature, and a card game. Each …

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Development Of A Scale For Measuring Individual Cultural Capital Relevant To Design Thinking, Takuo Ando Jun 2024

Development Of A Scale For Measuring Individual Cultural Capital Relevant To Design Thinking, Takuo Ando

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This study attempts to (1) conceptualize the cultural capital of individuals who accept Design Thinking (DT) and (2) develop a scale from the level of individual values, beliefs, and mindset. Previous studies on design thinking have mainly analyzed designers and trained design thinkers. However, this capacity resource is inherently considered to lie with all employees, including non-designers. Being able to embrace DT can be paraphrased as holding beliefs, values, and attitudes related to design. As DT does not necessarily require formal education, the development of such a scale could also be useful for finding natural design thinkers in organizations. We …

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Design For Longevity Literature Review In Product Lifecycle, Financial Planning, And Gerontology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang, Olivier L. De Weck, Eric Klopfer, John Ochsendorf Jun 2024

Design For Longevity Literature Review In Product Lifecycle, Financial Planning, And Gerontology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang, Olivier L. De Weck, Eric Klopfer, John Ochsendorf

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This paper explores definitions of Design for Longevity (D4L) through a preliminary literature review to create an interpretation of D4L in the finance and service context. The concept of longevity has been applied to many industries and applications. this paper reviews the term D4L as it applies to three fields: product lifecycle, financial planning, and gerontology. Using specific keywords across three search engines—Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Design Research Society Digital Library—we gathered 78 academic papers and synthesized 24 academic papers. As a result, we proposed a holistic and interdisciplinary definition of D4L as a lens to identify longevity-related …

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Enhancing Financial Education For Longevity Through Service Design, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang Jun 2024

Enhancing Financial Education For Longevity Through Service Design, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang

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As populations live longer, the traditional sequential phases of life—learning, earning, and retiring—don’t account for the complexity of demographic shifts. To age gracefully across a multiplicity of life phases, people must develop financial literacy at younger ages. This paper proposes a redesign of financial educational services between financial advisors and first-time clients using a Service-Behavior-Engagement (SBE) framework. We propose an immersive, multisensory service design kit, Design for Longevity (D4L), which includes tangible artifacts to facilitate experimentation, vulnerable conversations, and purposeful play: Longevity Planning Blocks, cards, and an interactive canvas. To test the kit, we conducted a 30-minute demonstration, followed by …

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Speculative Ethics, Design, Philosophy & Education, Wouter Eggink Jun 2024

Speculative Ethics, Design, Philosophy & Education, Wouter Eggink

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Designing requires great social and moral responsibility as we are surrounded by products and services that shape -and simultaneously get shaped by- the way we live. This asks for active reflection on ethical issues. However, with the classical top-down approach, ethics may be perceived as restrictive, setting boundaries for what is allowed and what not. Within philosophy of technology, ethical reflection is moving towards a more constructive approach, accompanying technological development with careful considerations. This paper takes a step further and proposes something that could be called 'creative ethics', where a bottom-up approach in dealing with ethical issues fosters inspiration …

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Health-Promotion Information Is Not Effective: General Goals Of Health And Wellbeing Conflict With Young Adults’ Instant Needs In Cooking And Food Choices, Taoran Ji, Debra Lilley, Emma Haycraft Jun 2024

Health-Promotion Information Is Not Effective: General Goals Of Health And Wellbeing Conflict With Young Adults’ Instant Needs In Cooking And Food Choices, Taoran Ji, Debra Lilley, Emma Haycraft

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Young adults are living in an era where nutritional and health knowledge is more accessible and advanced than ever before. However, young adults’ diets are still a concern. The PhD research reported on in this paper aims to suggest behavioural interventions that can align young adults’ individual dietary needs and their long-term goals of eating healthily. Using the methods of diary study, semi-structured interviews and card sorting, this research investigated young adults’ perceptions of their dietary behaviours and experiences of prior interventions, to understand the gap between their ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ in terms of healthy eating. The findings indicated that …

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Designing For Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, A Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring, Margherita Motta, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Annelaure Klaus, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves Jun 2024

Designing For Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, A Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring, Margherita Motta, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Annelaure Klaus, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves

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Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed Aidee, a prototype system composed of an app and interactive device that assists users in performing urine monitoring through qualitative data expression and ambient physicalization. To evaluate our prototype we conducted an exploratory between-subjects study involving 54 participants. Our findings indicate user acceptance for qualitative data expressions in the domain of personal wellbeing. Moreover, our study underscores that the combination of an app and …

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Tinder, I Don’T Like This: Identifying Desired User Interaction Qualities To Support Intimacy Building In The Online Environment, Petra Salaric, Rebecca Cain, Emilene Zitkus, Valentijn Visch Jun 2024

Tinder, I Don’T Like This: Identifying Desired User Interaction Qualities To Support Intimacy Building In The Online Environment, Petra Salaric, Rebecca Cain, Emilene Zitkus, Valentijn Visch

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As internet became the primary source for relationship formation, reports have emerged of negative experiences, poorer mental health and lower wellbeing. The design of online dating services influences user behaviours and can either support or inhibit relationship formation. To foster successful online relationship formation, understanding desired interaction qualities is crucial. This exploratory study presents a survey involving 100 participants from 23 nationalities across 5 continents. It identifies five key desired interaction qualities: excitement, comfort, safety, trust, and reciprocity. While trust emerged as the most vital for intimacy building yet often lacking in the online environment, excitement and playfulness were identified …

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Service Design And Circular Economy In Hybrid Retail Design, Nonkululeko Grootboom, Katelijn Quartier, Christina Breed Jun 2024

Service Design And Circular Economy In Hybrid Retail Design, Nonkululeko Grootboom, Katelijn Quartier, Christina Breed

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This paper serves as a pilot study exploring hybrid (physical and digital) retail design within the context of the circular economy, and it examines the prerequisite of the hy-brid retail environment in facilitating customer engagement with circular economy practices. Utilizing an exploratory qualitative approach, we collect primary data through semi-structured interviews with an SME retail brand and ten of its customers. Additionally, we conducted observations of both the physical store and its social me-dia. This contributes to the limited existing literature on hybrid retail design within the context of the circular economy, particularly in the fashion industry. By bridging two …

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Connecting Sustainable And Well-Being-Enhancing Behaviors: Reflections Through Daily Practices Of Young Adults, Michael Christopher Kowalski, Jungkyoon Yoon Jun 2024

Connecting Sustainable And Well-Being-Enhancing Behaviors: Reflections Through Daily Practices Of Young Adults, Michael Christopher Kowalski, Jungkyoon Yoon

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An experience sampling study was conducted to further understand daily activities of young adults with implications for Environmentally Sustainable Behavior (SB) and Subjective Well-being (SWB) simultaneously. Studies on SB and SWB are present in established bodies of design research, though connection across these strands appears limited. Analysis of 209 survey responses from 27 participants showed that while many activities were reported with mutually positive outcomes for SB and SWB, when there was conflict, individuals were more likely to prioritize their own subjective well-being over environmental sustainability. Activities that included designed products and environments that more readily supported SB and SWB …

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