Nov 2nd — Research through Design + Temporality
This is the summary for week 10 “Research through Design + Temporality” of Seminar 3 Advanced Interaction & Service Design Concepts / Design Theory & Practice. The aim of this course is to engage in critical discourses in design and explore and reflect on the implications of designing in the world, the agency of designed artifacts, and their effects not only in human systems but also in environmental ones.
We are currently covering the third module of our course called Research x Design. The students would conduct a pilot study, topics of their choice. At the end of the semester, they will present their studies and hold a Participatory event.
Jodi Forlizzi was invited to talk about design research this week. She talked about An Analysis and Critique of Research through Design, as a formalization of a research approach. To a degree, much of the research was another form of “what if” in artifact form. She also touched Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI. It used a basic framework of research to design was by starting with describing what it is and isn’t, defining terms.
- GUEST: Dr. Jodi Forlizzi Joining at 9 am. Readings selected by guest TBC
- Rapp, A., Odom, W., Pschetz, L., Petrelli, D. Introduction to the Special Issue on Time and HCI. Special Issue of International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
- Odom, W., Stolterman, E., Chen, A.. Extending a Theory of Slow Technology for Design through Artifact Analysis. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 2021
- PhDs only: Yi-Fu Tuan. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective. 1979
