Materials in Participatory Design Processes

نویسنده

  • Nicolai Brodersen Hansen
چکیده

This dissertation presents three years of academic inquiry into the question of what role materials play in interaction design and participatory design processes. The dissertation aims at developing conceptual tools, based on Dewey’s pragmatism, for understanding how materials aid design reflection. It has been developed using a research-through-design approach in which the author has conducted practical design work in order to investigate and experiment with using materials to scaffold design inquiry. The results of the PhD work is submitted as seven separate papers, submitted to esteemed journals and conferences within the field of interaction design and HCI. The work is motivated both by the growing interest in materials in interaction design and HCI and the interest in design processes and collaboration within those fields. At the core of the dissertation lies an interest in the many different materials used during the design process: sketches, prototypes as well as the materials we shape products out of: physical and digital materials now form a unity of computation and physical materials that has given rise to a new research interest in design and materiality. The main results from the dissertation are an understanding of design materials that draws on pragmatist philosophy. The papers and overview article highlights how materials in a pragmatist perspective are more than the matter out of which we shape an idea. Rather they structure the entire process of inquiry, helping us frame problems, inspire solutions and try out these solutions in practice. This framework, developed in several of the submitted papers, is tested and illustrated through a series of experimental design cases. Opsummering Denne afhandling præsenterer tre års akademisk undersøgelse af spørgsmålet om, hvilken rolle materialer spiller i interaktionsdesign og participatory design processer. Afhandlingen har til formål at udvikle konceptuelle værktøjer, baseret på Deweys pragmatisme, for at forstå, hvordan materialer består refleksion i designprocesser. Undersøgelsen er blevet udført ved hjælp af en research-through-design tilgang, hvor forfatteren har gennemført praktisk design arbejde ved at undersøge og eksperimentere med at bruge materialer i eksperimentelle design cases. Resultaterne af ph.d.-arbejdet er udmøntet i syv artikler som er blevet afleveres som syv separate papirer, som er blevet optaget på velestimerede tidskrifter og konferencer inden for interaktionsdesign og HCI. Arbejdet er motiveret både af den voksende interesse for materialer i interaktionsdesign og HCI, såvel som interessen for designprocesser og samarbejde inden for disse områder. Centralt i afhandlingen står en interesse for hvordan vi kan forstå brugen af de mange forskellige materialer, der anvendes i designprocessen: skitser, prototyper samt de materialer, vi former produkter ud af: fysiske og digitale materialer der i disse år smelter sammen til nye materialer der har computation som udgangspunkt. Derved dannes et nyt forskningsområde, og det er et designproces-blik på dette som afhandlingen tilbyder. Afhandlingens hovedbidrag er en forståelse af design materials, baseret på pragmatisk filosofi. Artiklerne og kappen fremhæver, hvordan materialer i et pragmatisk perspektiv er mere end det fysiske stof som vi former en idé ud af. Snarere former og strukturerer materialer hele design processen, ved at hjælpe os med at indramme problemer, inspirere løsninger, og afprøve disse løsninger i praksis. Denne forståelse er af materialer er udviklet gennem flere af de vedlagte artikler, og bliver her testet og illustreret i en række eksperimentelle design cases.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1703.07187  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017