Documenting the Research Through Design Process

Bardzell, Jeffrey; Bardzell, Shaowen; Dalsgaard, Peter; Gross, Shad; Halskov, Kim

doi:10.1145/2901790.2901859

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“…There seems to be agreement amongst RtD practitioners that as the creation of prototypes transforms abstract concepts into concrete artifacts, it simultaneously allows the designer to share their ideas, facilitating first to second order knowledge generation [1] -in other words, allowing others to understand and question design choices that have been made through their own experience with the work. Mousette [27] and Buxton [7] both highlight the advantages of making what they call a physical "sketch" -an approximated physical demo -compared with developing a prototype, which is a more fully realised concept.…”

Section: Research Through Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bardzell et al [1] find this to be problematic, asking whether such designs can ever be legitimized, because their distinct nature means they cannot be used to support a generalized theory. The designs may raise more questions than they answer, and moreover, may not fit easily into a more general body of work, thus making it difficult to draw broader conclusions that contribute to a wider theoretical framework [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Bardzell et al [1] propose three key aspects to be considered when documenting design research: (i) the medium, which is typically a collection of media, aggregated to form a cohesive expression of a relevant aspect of the design; (ii) performativity, which means that the documentation itself is a call to action -a process consisting of a series of sketched proposals, rather than finished representations; (iii) the documentation, which should at the same time work as a set of resources that enable conceptual knowledge to be shared.…”

Section: Documenting Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Research through Design in Animal Computer Interaction

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Mancini

Sharp

2017

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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This paper explores Research through Design (RtD) as a potential methodology for developing new interactive experiences for animals. We present an example study from an on-going project and examine whether RtD offers an appropriate framework for developing knowledge in the context of Animal-Computer Interaction, as well as considering how best to document such work. We discuss the design journey we undertook to develop interactive systems for captive elephants and the extent to which RtD has enabled us to explore concept development and documentation of research. As a result of our explorations, we propose that particular aspects of RtD can help ACI researchers gain fresh perspectives on the design of technology-enabled devices for non-human animals. We argue that these methods of working can support the investigation of particular and complex situations where no idiomatic interactions yet exist, where collaborative practice is desirable and where the designed objects themselves offer a conceptual window for future research and development.

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Exploring Research through Design in Animal Computer Interaction

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Mancini

Sharp

2017

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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“…In this article, we address this challenge focusing on an essential activity for the production and transmission of design knowledge: documentation [9][10][11]. Despite its prominent role to support design and research, we are still lacking a good repertoire of established forms in our field [12], works that systematically review and study those that exist in embodied design activities, and works that address practical considerations for their creation, adaptation, and use [9], such as: What should be documented?…”

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“…Despite its prominent role to support design and research, we are still lacking a good repertoire of established forms in our field [12], works that systematically review and study those that exist in embodied design activities, and works that address practical considerations for their creation, adaptation, and use [9], such as: What should be documented? Which tools or media should be used?…”

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Documenting the Elusive and Ephemeral in Embodied Design Ideation Activities

Vidal

Segura

2018

MTI

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Documenting embodied ideation activities is challenging, as they often result in ephemeral design constructs and elusive design knowledge difficult to document and represent. Here, we explore documentation forms designers can use internally during the design process in the domain of movement-based interaction in collocated, social settings. Using previous work and our experience from embodied ideation workshops, we propose three documentation forms with complementing perspectives of embodied action from a first and a third person view. We discuss how they capture ephemeral embodied action and elusive design and experiential knowledge, in relation to two interdependent aspects of documentation forms: their performativity and the medium they use. The novelty of these forms lies in what is being captured: ephemeral design constructs that emerge as designers engage with the embodied ideation activity; how it is portrayed: in aggregation forms that highlight elusive design knowledge; and their purpose: to clarify and augment analytical results improving the designer-researchers' understanding of key aspects of the embodied ideation process and its outcomes, useful to advance the design process and for research dissemination.

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GRACE: Designing Sociomaterial Assemblages Unpacking Gender Equity in Computing

Bjørn

Menéndez-Blanco

Borsotti

2022

Diversity in Computer Science

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This chapter introduces GRACE, a FemTech sociomaterial assemblage that performs concerns related to equity in computing. GRACE is an interactive installation combining IoT, origami paper, and the history of computing performed at three events in Denmark, the USA, and France. Each event was designed to unpack equity in computing through different types of sociomaterial performances, while allowing us to collect data about the lived experiences of equity in computing. GRACE is both reconfigurable and relational. It is reconfigurable because GRACE is malleable and can take different forms (reaching out to people who are committed to the agenda as well as to people who are within the domain but not necessarily committed to the agenda) – even though its core remains the same. GRACE is relational because the nature of the installation emerges in use and thus is shaped by the relational connections created through specific use and people enacting the artefact. Through sociomaterial manifestations, GRACE seamlessly integrates the performance of equity in computing with data collection on equity in computing. We argue that designing GRACE as a sociomaterial assemblage allowed for long-term engagement with a gender-equity agenda across multiple diverse encounters and over several years.

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Documenting the Research Through Design Process

Cited by 67 publications

References 23 publications

Exploring Research through Design in Animal Computer Interaction

Exploring Research through Design in Animal Computer Interaction

Documenting the Elusive and Ephemeral in Embodied Design Ideation Activities

GRACE: Designing Sociomaterial Assemblages Unpacking Gender Equity in Computing

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