Universal Design Research as a New Materialist Practice

Design and design research as contextual practice

Development and design have always been on the agenda of the information systems (IS) discipline. Besides researching the impact of new information technologies (IT) in organisations, most IS academics feel that IS should contribute to the design and production of better IS in practice (Hevner et al. 2004; March and Smith 1995). As a consequence, the design science research paradigm has gained ...

New materialist social inquiry: designs, methods and the research-assemblage

Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach

Health inequalities research has shown a growing interest in participatory ways of working. However, the theoretical ideas underpinning mainstream approaches to participation remain underexplored. This article contributes to theorising participatory practice for the kind of egalitarian politics to which many of those focused on reducing health inequalities are committed. First, we argue that th...

Action Research vs. Design Research: Using Practice Research as a Lens for Comparison and Integration

Action research and design research are two prominent research approaches in information systems. These two research approach have been claimed to be similar according to several conducted comparisons. There are, however, other claims that they are decisively dissimilar. Some scholars have proposed integrations of these two research approaches, which however show great diversity. These diversit...

Universal Design in HCI: A critical review of current research and practice

This paper provides a brief and informal review of recent efforts in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), which have been influenced by universal design thinking. We classify these efforts into four categories, namely, guidelines, user interface development frameworks and architectures, user interface software technologies and support actions. By investigating the state of the art in e...