Books+ Search Results
Empowering Users through Design Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services
Author
Title
Empowering Users through Design [electronic resource] : Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services / edited by David Bihanic.
ISBN
9783319130187
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Physical Description
XXVII, 284 p. 68 illus., 57 illus. in color : online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
At the crossroads of various disciplines, this collective work examines the possibility of a new end-user “engagement” in ongoing digital/technological products and services development. It provides an overview of recent research specifically focused on the user’s democratic participation and empowerment. It also enables readers to better identify the main opportunities of participatory design, a concept which encourages the blurring of the role between user and designer. This allows people to escape their status as “end-user” and to elevate themselves to the level of creator. This book explores new avenues for rethinking the processes and practices of corporate innovation in order to cope with current socio-economic and technological changes. In so doing, it aims to help companies renew industrial models that allow them to design and produce new ranges of technological products and services by giving the user an active role in the development process, far beyond the basic role of consumer. Intended for designers, design researchers and scientists interested in innovation and technology management, this book also provides a valuable resource for professionals involved in technology-based innovation processes.
Variant and related titles
Springer ebooks.
Other formats
Printed edition:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 05, 2015
Contents
Form Follows Practice
Who Designs? Technological Mediation in Design Participation
User’s Continuity in Design Continuous Innovation
Towards User Involvement in Envisioning Practices. Opening the Use of the Future
Critical Design: a Delicate Balance between the Thrill of the Uncanny and the Interrogation of the Unknown
Digital Objects Topologies: Transitions between Utility, Form and Intent
Design Ethnography? Towards a Designerly Approach to Field Research
(Mis)Behavioral Objects: Empowerment of Users vs Empowerment of Objects
Open Sourcing Wearables: the Impact of Open Technologies and User Engagement in the Design of Body-Borne Interactive Products
Trialogical Learning: a New Framework for Learning Through the Creative Relationship between Emerging Technologies and Multiple Participants
Open Meta-Design: Tools for Designing Collaborative Processes
Co-Design to Empower Cultural Heritage Professionals as Technology Designers: the meSch project
User Empowerment and the I-Doc Model User
“Nothing Makes Sense”: New Aesthetics of Experiences in Self-Organizing Services
A Manifesto for Epistemological Empowerment in Chronic Disease Self Care.
Also listed under
SpringerLink (Online service)
Bookmark As
Citation
