Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Design education (34)
- Design (29)
- Participatory design (29)
- Service design (27)
- Sustainability (25)
-
- Co-design (23)
- Codesign (21)
- Design research (20)
- Speculative design (17)
- Artificial intelligence (15)
- Inclusive design (15)
- More-than-human (13)
- Systemic design (13)
- Care (12)
- Design methods (12)
- Ethics (12)
- Interaction design (12)
- Wellbeing (11)
- Biodesign (9)
- Circular economy (9)
- Complexity (9)
- Design ethics (9)
- Design for policy (9)
- Design practice (9)
- Design process (9)
- Generative AI (9)
- Governance (9)
- Legal design (9)
- More-than-human design (9)
- Participation (9)
- Publication Year
Articles 1021 - 1050 of 1527
Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Transformational Practices; Aligning Governance And Design., Fernando Galdon, Ashley Hall
Transformational Practices; Aligning Governance And Design., Fernando Galdon, Ashley Hall
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper introduces the concept of ‘Transformational Practises’ as a prospective design-led integrative space to conduct multidisciplinary research aiming at ex-ceptionally innovative and/or unconventional research aiming for a high trans-formational impact. Based on a range of selected examples, the authors underpin the fundamental principles of this new framework to propose a criteria to assess prospective and multidisciplinary design-led transformations. In the process, it places design as a distinctive and fundamental activity to develop transforma-tional impact in research that aligns the applied arts (arts and design), with the prospective sciences (e.g., AI and synthetic biology), and prospective sociology (e.g., economics and …
Transitioning To A Circular Economy: A Gender- Sensitive Exploration Of Circular Consumption In Denmark And Southern Sweden, Tereza Keprdová, Diana Mîinea, Amalia De Götzen
Transitioning To A Circular Economy: A Gender- Sensitive Exploration Of Circular Consumption In Denmark And Southern Sweden, Tereza Keprdová, Diana Mîinea, Amalia De Götzen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The dominant model of a resource-intensive linear economy has resulted in excessive production and consumption, leading to the depletion of natural resources and significant waste generation. Transitioning to a circular economy (CE) is crucial for achieving more sustainable production-consumption systems. However, the CE discourses have been dominated by technological and manufacturing solutions, with relatively less attention to developing circular consumption practices and establishing pathways for everyday participation. This article presents the findings of a Master's thesis that explored the gendered aspects of circular consumption and its challenges for individuals in Denmark and Southern Sweden. The research shows that a gender- …
A Systematic Review Of People-Centred Healthcare Services For People With Arthritis, Yaohan Xing, Mersha Aftab, Joanne Brooke
A Systematic Review Of People-Centred Healthcare Services For People With Arthritis, Yaohan Xing, Mersha Aftab, Joanne Brooke
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The aim of this paper is to explore the practice of people-centred design using design thinking in healthcare for people with arthritis. People-centred design has significantly progressed in the healthcare industry, including the management of arthritis. This paper reports a systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Framework. It explores the research and practice in the person-centred design of healthcare services for people with arthritis. Six databases were searched: Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, PubMed, Psych info, and Cinahl. Inclusion criteria included service for the management of arthritis, written in English and published between …
Fostering Design Research Labs For Public Sector Innovation, Andrea Augsten, Lynn Harles
Fostering Design Research Labs For Public Sector Innovation, Andrea Augsten, Lynn Harles
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The public sector's digital transformation fosters collaboration and experimenta-tion, integrating design practices like design thinking, service design, and system design, notably in public innovation labs. Despite progress, these labs face chal-lenges in effecting change, transferring knowledge, and gaining cultural ac-ceptance. Public Innovation Labs (PIL) prioritize the common good, unlike profit-centric private counterparts. Design Research Labs (DRL), rooted in arts and de-sign, share this mission, offering a unique perspective on public sector innova-tion. Exploring the potential of DRLs in supporting public labs, this paper outlines criteria based on five DRLs in the German academic design context. It provides a new perspective …
Expertise Profiling In Design Schools: A Theoretical Framework, Ehsan Baha, Tomás Dorta, Philippe Gauthier
Expertise Profiling In Design Schools: A Theoretical Framework, Ehsan Baha, Tomás Dorta, Philippe Gauthier
DRS Biennial Conference Series
A renewed interest, propelled by the European Bauhaus initiative, has sparked a re-evaluation of design education in response to the growing complexity and interdisciplinary demands of design, encompassing both craftsmanship and academic discipline. While ongoing discussions focus on school types, curriculum development, and pedagogical approaches, there is an oversight in examining the expertise profiles of design educators. These profiles encapsulate the competencies and proficiencies of teaching staff, profoundly influencing the ethos, objectives, philosophy, and substance of education institutions. This paper proposes a theoretical framework delineating three archetypal expertise profiles for design educators: design practitioner, design researcher, and hybrid, nuanced to …
Bridging Reality And The Reel: An Ar-Enhanced Application Model For Memorable Tourist Experiences, Hyunyim Park, Jingyi Cheng, Shuyun Wang
Bridging Reality And The Reel: An Ar-Enhanced Application Model For Memorable Tourist Experiences, Hyunyim Park, Jingyi Cheng, Shuyun Wang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Over the past decade, the convergence of technology and entertainment has opened new avenues for improving the experiences of film enthusiasts and tourists alike. Focusing on merging reality and reel to enhance memorable tourist experiences, this paper introduces a comprehensive design model for developing smart film tourism applications. A qualitative approach was employed to explore the expectations and potential issues faced by film tourists throughout their journeys. Subsequently, insights are generated and translated into four key design aspects and corresponding features, integrating augmented reality technology. The convergence of elements within the model aims to facilitate a deeper connection between tourists …
Training Designers In The Pluriverse: The Experience Of Studio Wudé With Leather Crafts In Senegal, Caroline Grellier, Cécile Ndiaye
Training Designers In The Pluriverse: The Experience Of Studio Wudé With Leather Crafts In Senegal, Caroline Grellier, Cécile Ndiaye
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This article reflects on design and the training of designers from a West African perspective, based on the experience of Studio Wudé, a workshop which has been working in Senegal since 2006 to transmit endogenous knowledge about leather transformation. Through an analysis of the Studio's pedagogical design approach, the aim is to question in West African contexts the relevance of the historical dissociation between thinking and doing, at the genesis of a Western industrial capitalist design culture whose spread in West Africa has accelerated over the past five years via the emergence of higher design education based on a Western …
Making Space Online: Situating Complex, Intersectional Identities, Dori Griffin, Brooke Hull
Making Space Online: Situating Complex, Intersectional Identities, Dori Griffin, Brooke Hull
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This co-authored visual essay explores our process of making space for ourselves online within the complexity of our intersectional identities. Individually, we’ve appropriated mainstream social media posts to share marginalized experiences, generate meaningful connections, and merge our personal and research identities. On Facebook, Griffin shares her experiences as a cis-female, invisibly disabled, neurodivergent design educator. On Instagram, Hull shares their experiences as fat, queer, trans non-binary design student. Together, using tools with low barriers to entry, we document how design educational praxis affords our marginalized voices access, or not, within physical and virtual design education spaces. As white authors, we …
Harnessing Information Visualization As A Vehicle For Translational Design, Joli Holmes, Matthew Blanco, Todd Linkner, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Harnessing Information Visualization As A Vehicle For Translational Design, Joli Holmes, Matthew Blanco, Todd Linkner, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designers are often positioned as mediators or interpreters, working between disciplines and stakeholders to frame and address problems. This quality is particularly desired when a product transitions from one implementation to another. Translational designers assist this process through critical activities such as navigating differing domain knowledge and balancing conflicting values or cultures between stakeholders. We argue the primary outcome of translational design is not necessarily an artifact but the translation of knowledge across disciplines for decision-making. Our research explains and shows how information visualization can translate meaning within a group of experts familiar with the same topic and between a …
Strategic Design Futures: Exploring Strategy And Futures To Learn And Practice Design For Intentional Change, G. Mauricio Mejía
Strategic Design Futures: Exploring Strategy And Futures To Learn And Practice Design For Intentional Change, G. Mauricio Mejía
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designers change existing situations with a focus on changing the behavior of artifacts. When designers aim to intentionally change the behaviors of individuals, organizations, or social systems, practitioners use specific approaches. Strategy (strategic design) and futures (design futures) are two alternatives for designers working on complex situations that require intentional change. This paper presents and reports three editions of a course titled Strategic Design Futures that address this type of situation. The course includes a seminar and a project component, which are structured into six design activities: sense-making, participatory visioning, designing futures, designing strategy, participatory evaluation, and design implementation. The …
Design X Non-Profits: Towards An Understanding Of Design Integration In The Australian Non-Profit Sector, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn
Design X Non-Profits: Towards An Understanding Of Design Integration In The Australian Non-Profit Sector, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design has long demonstrated an interest in shaping society and the world for good. In Australia, there are 59,747 non-profit organisations that seek to do the same. Surprisingly, there is little research situated at the intersection of these fields. This research explores the potential remit of design in non-profit organisations and provides insight into where and how design practices may be beneficial to non-profit partners. This paper first thematically analyses the responses of 140 Australian non-profit organisations as they reflect on their strategic position and core activities. Drawing on these insights, we outline five thematic notions of value as it …
Using Space And Knowledge To Confront Power In Design, Shari Pol, Philip Ely, Louis Geneste
Using Space And Knowledge To Confront Power In Design, Shari Pol, Philip Ely, Louis Geneste
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper considers the disputes and questions arising from a systematic review of the social design literature and establishes three prominent contestations relating to the ideas of ‘power’, ‘systems thinking’ and ‘criticality’. These ideas are tightly connected, with systems thinking and criticality emerging in response to the omnipresence of power relations in social design. With the acceptance that social design is inherently political, and the provision that both ‘space’ and the ‘uncovering of knowledge’ can work to confront such power and enable social innovation, we see the need for both an expansion and nuance of future social design efforts. Our …
Developing Factors Of Trust For The Design Of Trustworthy Human - Product Interactions, Zene Krige
Developing Factors Of Trust For The Design Of Trustworthy Human - Product Interactions, Zene Krige
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Trust is fundamental in our acceptance and decision-making of that which we surround ourselves with. This paper reviews existing frameworks and discourse around types of trust and identifies key factors for trust formation, maintenance and ongoing use. It establishes a need for a framework focusing on the design of trustworthy objects, especially those that are technology-embedded. It identifies a series of factors and recommendations when designing for trust. Stemming from a creative practice-based PhD from Aotearoa, New Zealand, the project seeks to design a product for the horticultural industry that enables more efficient data collection around fruit size. When yield …
Transforming Futures Together: Time Travelling With The Tomorrow Party, Hannah Korsmeyer, Lisa Grocott, Shanti Sumartojo, Myfanwy Doughty, Michael Mintrom
Transforming Futures Together: Time Travelling With The Tomorrow Party, Hannah Korsmeyer, Lisa Grocott, Shanti Sumartojo, Myfanwy Doughty, Michael Mintrom
DRS Biennial Conference Series
We need new methods for generating policy insights that ensure people's lived experiences are not flattened and fixed to a moment in time and that visions of possible futures are not curtailed by a 'crisis of imagination'. In response to this challenge, we have developed a creative, play-based method called the Tomorrow Party, which invites participants to travel forward in time and share co-created stories of the desirable futures they find themselves living in. As a future story-making process, the Tomorrow Party generates novel ways of sharing affective perspectives on possible futures so we can collectively anticipate what is at …
Reimagining Antibiotic Delivery At Home: Designing A Wearable Cool-Infuser, Geoffrey Thompson, Rowan Page, Benjamin Rogers
Reimagining Antibiotic Delivery At Home: Designing A Wearable Cool-Infuser, Geoffrey Thompson, Rowan Page, Benjamin Rogers
DRS Biennial Conference Series
As antimicrobial resistance (AMR) intensifies, hospitals face increased pressure due to the high demand for bed spaces and the associated risks of hospital-acquired infections. Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) offers a solution by enabling patients to receive life-saving intravenous antibiotic treatments in the community rather than in hospitals. However, temperature-sensitive antibiotics can degrade when exposed to heat, creating design challenges in OPAT settings. Current antibiotic infusion devices focus on the clinical need and outcomes of treatment, leaving room to improve the holistic patient experience of living with the device. Through a human-centred design approach, this project develops a Wearable cool-infuser that …
Reflections On The Usefulness And Limitations Of Tools For Life-Centred Design, Martin Tomitsch, Katharina Clasen, Estela Duhart, Damien Lutz
Reflections On The Usefulness And Limitations Of Tools For Life-Centred Design, Martin Tomitsch, Katharina Clasen, Estela Duhart, Damien Lutz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Life-centred design decenters humans and considers all life and the far-reaching impacts of design decisions. However, little is known about the application of life-centred design tools in practice and their usefulness and limitations for considering more-than-human perspectives. To address this gap, we carried out a series of workshops, reporting on findings from a first-person study involving one design academic and three design practitioners. Using a popular flat-pack chair as a case study, we generatively identified and applied four tools: systems maps, actant maps, product lifecycle maps and behavioural impact canvas. We found that the tools provided a structured approach for …
Exploring The Relation Between Aesthetic Experience And Physical Activity Motivation, Yoonah Jung, Chajoong Kim, Kyungho Lee, Hwang Kim
Exploring The Relation Between Aesthetic Experience And Physical Activity Motivation, Yoonah Jung, Chajoong Kim, Kyungho Lee, Hwang Kim
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Digital physical activity applications employ various motivational mechanisms to encourage exercise, yet research on the complex relationship between their visual aesthetics and motivation for physical activity is still limited. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how three different visual images, such as those representing health, fitness, and social benefits, respectively, can motivate peo-ple to engage in physical activity in a digital service environment. To investigate this, 50 participants evaluated these images in the survey. The results showed that out of the three categories, fitness images had the most significant impact on motivating physical activity, suggesting that stimuli that …
Transforming Design Museums For Redesigning Design, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse
Transforming Design Museums For Redesigning Design, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse
DRS Biennial Conference Series
There is a need for spaces that can support reflecting on and reimagining design, and redirecting it toward sustainment and justice. Such spaces would necessarily operate with the understanding that design is ontological and has political consequences. We might think of such spaces as metabolic design museums. In this paper, we imagine how metabolic museums might help to redesign design through keeping process at their heart and critically unpacking design’s involvement in urgencies as well as possibilities to envision and move towards more just futures. To do this, we build on intersectional feminist analysis of existing design museums through museum …
How To Use Service Prototypes To Reduce The Complexity Of Social Problems : A Case Study Of Adoption Services Of Public Animal Shelter., Yu-Hsin Li, Hsien-Hui Tang
How To Use Service Prototypes To Reduce The Complexity Of Social Problems : A Case Study Of Adoption Services Of Public Animal Shelter., Yu-Hsin Li, Hsien-Hui Tang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Stray dog population management (SDPM) poses a significant social challenge in Asia, where adoption services in animal shelters offer a resolution. However, the severity of this issue is exacerbated by high personnel and infrastructure de-mands, coupled with limited public awareness. Our application of service design strategically optimizes and enhances the quality and experience of adoption ser-vices. We recognized the pivotal role of service prototypes in navigating the complexities inherent in social problems. This study examines two animal adop-tion service cases, highlighting the diverse uses of prototypes in understanding social issues refining and evaluating designs within societal limitations. Detailed roles and …
Trauma Responsiveness By Design: Towards An Ethic Of Care And Accountability In Design Research, Sarah Fathallah, Verónica Caridad Rabelo
Trauma Responsiveness By Design: Towards An Ethic Of Care And Accountability In Design Research, Sarah Fathallah, Verónica Caridad Rabelo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design research can help us understand, dismantle, and transform unjust systems and the material realities that they create, while guiding us towards transformative, radical futures yet to be designed. However, design research can also be a site of harm and trauma. We argue that a “do no harm” guiding principle to ethics in design research is insufficient. Rather, design researchers need to reckon with and prepare for the likelihood that they will cause harm to the people and communities they engage in their design processes. We draw from the ethics of care and accountability theorized and explored by feminist thought …
Drifting By Friction: Playing With Ontologies Of Design, Mathias Poulsen
Drifting By Friction: Playing With Ontologies Of Design, Mathias Poulsen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In this paper, I will trace the ‘drift’ that has happened in my PhD project, ‘De-signing for Playful Democratic Frictions’. I argue that it has been driven primarily by the friction that emerged between the diverse components in my ‘research-assemblage’. The aim is not to resolve the friction, but rather to enhance and fol-low it as far as I can. I suggest that a playful attitude is helpful for lingering with this friction, and that such a stance can allow us to see things otherwise ob-scured by tales of historical necessity. This notion of drifting by friction may in-spire strategies …
Reimagining Sustainable Mobility Futures: Exploring Design Imaginariums For City-Wide Challenges, Jen Ballie, Fraser Bruce
Reimagining Sustainable Mobility Futures: Exploring Design Imaginariums For City-Wide Challenges, Jen Ballie, Fraser Bruce
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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 …
Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton
Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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 …
Design Principles Of The Pluriversal Design Paradigm, Eveline Van Zeeland
Design Principles Of The Pluriversal Design Paradigm, Eveline Van Zeeland
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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 …
Faculty Wellbeing In Corporate Academia: A Critical Examination And Reimaging Of The Curriculum Vitae, Aaron Ganci
Faculty Wellbeing In Corporate Academia: A Critical Examination And Reimaging Of The Curriculum Vitae, Aaron Ganci
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Faculty wellbeing is declining among US higher education faculty, and burnout is becoming increasingly common. This study examines the role of design artifacts, namely the curriculum vitae (CV), within this dynamic. The CV has succumbed to interconnected social forces, including neoliberalism and inclusive democratization, fundamentally altering its design and the connected faculty experience. To better understand if design action might improve faculty wellbeing, this study employs a transformative research design to examine how the CV might be reimagined to promote positive transformation and improved wellbeing. This mixed-method qualitative study utilizes a novel bend of interviews, participatory co-design activities, and a …
Key-Drivers To Design Urban Mobility Services For Silver Age And Age-Friendly Cities., Stefania Palmieri, Alessandro Ianniello, Mario Bisson
Key-Drivers To Design Urban Mobility Services For Silver Age And Age-Friendly Cities., Stefania Palmieri, Alessandro Ianniello, Mario Bisson
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The vision regarding ageing is often influenced by negative stereotypes, which lead to considering the over-55 user only in need of targeted assistance and care. Observing the current situation, this view should be no longer exhaustive: they are active users, capable of exercising agency, with needs and desires beyond care and assistance, and bearers of experience and knowledge. It is therefore clear that design strategies to develop services for this user group must necessarily broaden their horizons and begin to consider areas that have been scarcely explored. The contribution focuses on the topic of urban mobility and proposes a preliminary …
Intergenerational Creative Spaces, Co-Living, Community: Design For Longevity, Diana Susan Nicholas, Tasha Singh, Tanaya Deshpande, Alisha Prabhakar, Rachel Wenrick, Ayana Allen-Handy
Intergenerational Creative Spaces, Co-Living, Community: Design For Longevity, Diana Susan Nicholas, Tasha Singh, Tanaya Deshpande, Alisha Prabhakar, Rachel Wenrick, Ayana Allen-Handy
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Assisting our communities with design for longevity through creating opportunities to age in place requires multiple resources. Aging and longevity are essential emerging factors for many urban neighborhoods. In partnership with the Drexel University Writers Room and Second Story Collective, the Drexel Design Research for Health Lab is creating an innovative concept space and tool for inter-generational creativity through storytelling and artmaking. The interdisciplinary members of the project are developing a series of evidence-based urban spaces around Aging-in-Place. The group has received funding to conduct an age-friendly observational study of the central location for community writing activities. The current goal …
Advancing Design With Generative Ai: A Case Of Automotive Design Process Transformation, Yi Li, Yeye Li, Wei Yan, Fan Yang, Xuanxuan Ding
Advancing Design With Generative Ai: A Case Of Automotive Design Process Transformation, Yi Li, Yeye Li, Wei Yan, Fan Yang, Xuanxuan Ding
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Generative AI has greatly enhanced the production of digital content and has had a significant impact on the creative activities of designers. However, generalized generative AI falls short of designers' expectations in semantic understanding and image generation, and thus been poorly used in specific design domains (e.g., automotive design). This paper aims to explore the integration of generative AI into the design process, focusing on the generation of automotive design. We deconstructed the process of automotive design through user research, extracted the needs and pain points of designers, and transformed them into fine-tuning tasks for generative models. We trained three …
Participatory Design Research, Documenting The Experience Of Gainesville Local Drag Performers., Gilberto Corona
Participatory Design Research, Documenting The Experience Of Gainesville Local Drag Performers., Gilberto Corona
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This case study documents the process of research, identification, and co-creation —with members of the drag community— a visual ethnography of Gainesville's drag culture. This study documented drag performance as an integral element of public-facing queer communities and took place during 2021 and 2022. Drag GNV aim is to contextualize the importance and nuance of drag as an activity supporting LGBTQ+ individuals and communities and as a publicly visible format for sharing elements of LGBTQ+ community identity with broader audiences. This research focused on conversations with the queer community (performers and allies) and centered reflections on drag venues as safe …
Virtual Reality For Assessment Of Chronic Lower Back Pain In Physiotherapy - Task Selection, Design, And User Experience Evaluation, Anders Lundström, Patrik Björnfot, William Sahlin, Hiran Herath, Lars Berglund, Edit Strömbäck
Virtual Reality For Assessment Of Chronic Lower Back Pain In Physiotherapy - Task Selection, Design, And User Experience Evaluation, Anders Lundström, Patrik Björnfot, William Sahlin, Hiran Herath, Lars Berglund, Edit Strömbäck
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) presents a significant challenge in healthcare, re-quiring effective tools for rehabilitation and assessment. This study explores the use of virtual reality (VR) for assessment of physical function in patients with CLBP, and investigates how movements and tasks can be designed for assessment purposes. The focus is on physiotherapists' perceptions of using VR regarding task design, feasibility, and user experience. We conducted three design workshops with physiotherapists and HCI researchers, and designed three VR applications that we evaluated with six physiotherapy students. The study provides valuable insights into participants' perceptions and highlights promising and challenging aspects …