Designing for Life

Saariluoma, Pertti; Cañas, José J.; Leikas, Jaana

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53047-9

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“…This serves to both simplify thinking about the values and enable discussion of them. In this respect, a holistic view of the values of different aspects of human life is important for design, since improving the quality of human life is the aim of designand this improvement is related to progress in all aspects of life (Saariluoma et al 2016). Accordingly, we designed a tool, using the comprehensive value framework of Kheirandish (2018).…”

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HuValue: a tool to support design students in considering human values in their design

Kheirandish

Funk

Wensveen

et al. 2019

Int J Technol Des Educ

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Human values play an integral role in any design that aims to improve the quality of human life. However, only a few design approaches concentrate on human values in their design, and there is even very little agreement between them in identifying human values. Considering this, we created a design tool based on a comprehensive value framework to support designers' addressing human values in their designs. This tool intends to raise designers' awareness about human values and provide tangible materials to facilitate the use of selected values within the design process. This article investigated whether this tool is applicable and effective to be used in design education. A quasi-experimental study with design students showed that the project groups who were supported with this tool addressed significantly stronger human values in their design concepts compared to the control groups. Results of the evaluation indicated that the tool is not only applicable in a design process but is also effective at enriching design concepts with human values.

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Section: Problem Statement and Research Goalmentioning

confidence: 99%

HuValue: a tool to support design students in considering human values in their design

Kheirandish

Funk

Wensveen

et al. 2019

Int J Technol Des Educ

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“…Defining sense making parameters for analysing sensor data presupposes in-depth understanding of human functioning and daily life. We have applied Life-based design (LBD) approach to investigate the elements of everyday life [18]. This approach takes the analysis of human life as the basis of designing technologysupported services.…”

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“…People participate in FoLs by sharing different rules and regularities that are typical of that particular FoL and by carrying out respective actions [18][19]. The concept 'form of life' originates from Wittgenstein's late philosophy.…”

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“…In his original proposal, form of life was a theoretical concept and conceptual abstraction for analysing human linguistic behavior and use of language. It is possible to extend the use of this concept to analyse, any other aspects of human life [18].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An FoL analysis starts by defining these rules and regularities [18]. Daily routines can be seen as regularities that people follow when they participate in a particular FoL.…”

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Emerging technologies open up new visions and business potential for systems design and development in the areas of wellbeing and health. New technologies enable the detection of human performance and early changes in physical and cognitive functioning, making it possible to monitor an older person's wellbeing. This kind of technology or service sets significant requirements for design, as design concepts must be able to capture the complexity of people's daily lives in terms of activities and environments. Technology itself is "blind" unless designers can adapt it to human life. There is thus a distinct need for comprehensive design and development models that generate adequate human requirements for such design. Activity typologies described in this paper are an example of such life-based design relevant knowledge. They allow the detection of signals in daily routines that would predict a decline in the target person's functioning, and feed this data into design processes. They can be used to create a model for human requirements specification for such ubiquitous services that are grounded on the idea of detecting changes in human activity. The model presented in this paper is created in BeWell project and based on the theoretical frameworks of Life-Based Design and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

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Mental self‐renewal as a measure of systems thinking

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Systems thinking research confronts theoretical and empirical challenges, and new measures based on the cognitive sciences have been sought. In this paper, mental self‐renewal is proposed as a suitable new theoretical construct for studying systems thinking. The objective was to construct and validate a psychometric scale of mental self‐renewal (MSRS) and to investigate its associations with complex postformal thinking (CPFT), existing systems thinking scores (STSR) and visual remote associative thinking (vRAT). Data were collected by surveying 311 international designers. Exploratory factor analysis and correlative analyses indicate construct validity for a novel scale with 14 different factors that, when taken together, measure designer's mental self‐renewal. The MSRS is a strong predictor of CPFT, whereas its correlation with STSR is weak. MSRS or CPFT did not predict performance in the vRAT test, while STSR did. In conclusion, MSRS can measure novel aspects of systems thinking; however, further research is necessary.

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Designing for Life

Cited by 39 publications

References 203 publications

HuValue: a tool to support design students in considering human values in their design

HuValue: a tool to support design students in considering human values in their design

Activity typologies as a design model for the ubiquitous detection of daily routines

Mental self‐renewal as a measure of systems thinking

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