From Needs to Desire: Pluriversal Design as a Desire-Based Design

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

Desire-as-belief revisited

On Humeís account of motivation, beliefs and desires are very di§erent kinds of propositional attitudes. Beliefs are cognitive attitudes, desires emotive ones. An agentís belief in a proposition captures the weight he or she assigns to this proposition in his or her cognitive representation of the world. An agentís desire for a proposition captures the degree to which he or she prefers its trut...

Enchanted Objects - Design, Human Desire and the Internet of Things

In the tradition of Who Owns the Future? and The Second Machine Age, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs and improve our lives.We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the A former ceo of fairy tales and science fiction nonfiction. Groundbreaking timely and the city can health leaders capacious telepathic google latit...

Fear and Desire in Systems Design: Negotiating Database Usefulness

Modelling an elevator design task in DESIRE: the VT example

An elevator configuration task, the VT task, is modelled within DESIRE as a design task. DESIRE is a framework within which complex reasoning tasks are modelled as compositional architectures. Compositional architectures are based on a task decomposition, acquired during task analysis. An earlier developed generic task model of design, based on a logical analysis and synthesis of task models de...