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Research-Through-Design and Chemistry: Reflections On A Multi-Disciplinary Workflow Process Of UV Sensing Wearables For Sun Safety
No full textThis paper documents the design research, concept design and digital fabrication process of UV Wear - a collection of smart non-digital 3D printed accessories developed by a multi-disciplinary team of designers, materials scientists, and digital fabrication technicians. The project utilised the multi-disciplinary expertise of the team to create UV responsive accessories that embed interactive capability with aesthetically appealing and customisable designs. This was achieved through integrating diarylethene photoswitch material into the 3D printing process. Through the documentation of our multi-disciplinary Research-through-Design (RtD) workflow process, which fuses work across the chemistry lab, design studio, and design fabrication lab, the contributions of this paper are: 1) We present our multidisciplinary RtD workflow model as a case study, providing detailed descriptions of the design research phases conducted within this model; 2) We reflect on challenges that multi-disciplinary RtD projects face, and offer prompts for future translational design work
Embodied experience of exoskeletons
No full textThe significance of occupational exoskeletons is increasing, offering relief and improving well-being for physically demanding tasks. Existing adoption frame-works reveal crucial factors for development (like wearing comfort and task fit) and implementation (such as familiarization time and organizational perspective). How-ever, physical aspects are addressed primarily through ergonomics. As exoskeleton technology inherently involves the body, the user\u27s perception and experience are tied to bodily experiences. Further research is needed to understand the human-exo-skeleton interaction comprehensively and explore how the user experience unfolds and how the exoskeleton\u27s and user\u27s characteristics influence each other. Our con-tribution, a conceptual framework leveraging established frameworks of user experi-ence and the concept of body experience, addresses this gap by contextualizing the body within the exoskeleton research. We examine the nuanced dynamics of the un-folding human-exoskeleton experience and how its various aspects entangle them-selves around the user\u27s corporeality, affecting the users\u27 relationship with their bod-ies and self-perception
Power Signifiers: the subtle forms of power in design practice with marginalized craft communities
No full textThis paper discusses how craft practice may offer empowerment strategies for critically reflective spaces, that allow for social transformation, using the case of traditional textile communities of women in rural Pakistan where development opportunities are limited. It uses the reflective practice of its design researcher, to explore established power relations, and search for new dialogues that build meaningful relationships for creating new forms of power in interrelated social, development and design contexts. This practice-based discussion contends with the embedded layers of power arising from social constructs and those extending beyond. A combined methodology, ‘Power Signifiers’ is presented as a critically reflective approach for social and design practice, building on the social sciences discourse of power analysis and power relations frameworks through forms of non-obvious power in developing contexts. Theories of power and empowerment provide a platform that designers can build on in examining agencies of making in design collaborations
Acoustic patterns for urban attractors
No full textThis study proposes the use of forms of entrainment as an interaction design principle for social computing. Entrainment could be used to design computational artifacts that produce socially beneficial effects, suitable for design projects that promote collaborative action. This study explores acoustic entrainment to gather cyclists into groups to reduce carbon-intensive urban commuting. The system uses visual cues and rhythmic patterns to gather riders with similar routes around mobile GPS signals. Preliminary results from a small empirical study (n=8) show how pattern phasing can encourage riders to accelerate. This method has limitations in communicating negative acceleration and proximity. Adjusting pattern tempo and volume may compensate for this shortcoming. Conclusions are drawn concerning the effects of acoustic entrainment on cyclist\u27s engagement with others and with the environment
A Systematic Review of People-centred Healthcare Services for People with Arthritis
No full textThe aim of this paper is to explore the practice of people-centred design using design thinking in healthcare for people with arthritis. People-centred design has significantly progressed in the healthcare industry, including the management of arthritis. This paper reports a systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Framework. It explores the research and practice in the person-centred design of healthcare services for people with arthritis. Six databases were searched: Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, PubMed, Psych info, and Cinahl. Inclusion criteria included service for the management of arthritis, written in English and published between 2011 and 2023. A total of 27 articles were included in the review. This is part of a dual-disciplinary doctoral study illustrating healthcare services for people with arthritis and potential improvements in people-centred design guided by design thinking
Resisting, Recovering, Reflecting, and Reimagining Design Education
No full textNew, ongoing, and unremitting urgencies are aggregating at a furious rate – climate, inequality, populism, poverty, artificial intelligence, and unchecked capitalism. This uncertainty is daunting, but as bell hooks reminds us, “[t]he classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility” (1994: 207). The DRS EdSIG invites contributions that explore design education and its limitations and possibilities in the following ways: Resisting Education / The Education of Resistance What forms of design education should be resisted? How has design education been complicit in supporting existing orders? / What does it mean to educate future designers and design researchers for resistance, and what kinds of resistance should we be educating for? Recovering Education / The Education of Recovery What should we recover design education from? And what might we need to lose? / What does educating future designers and design researchers for recovery mean? Reflecting on Education / The Education of Reflection Which established epistemologies of design education should we critically reflect on? What modes of reflection are needed nowadays? / How can the education of future designers and design researchers utilise reflection to challenge existing orders and worldviews? Reimagining Education / The Education of Re-imagination How do we reimagine? With whom and what are the fruits of this re-imagining? / What does educating future designers and design researchers for re-imagination mean? We invite speculations, positions, possibilities, case studies, and empirical investigations that reconsider our knowledge, methods, and approaches in design education at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral level
Design For ‘Extraordinary’ Well-being: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis To Understand The ‘lived Experience’ Of Women Living With A ‘Dys-appearing’ Body Through Materials
No full textThis paper sets out to view disability from a medical construct to a multi-faceted approach, considering biological, psychological and social factors. This helps us understand the need for a phenomenological approach to address disability from a ‘lived’ perspective, acknowledging the personal experiential dimension. A perspective this research adopts to underpin an argument that aesthetics from a cultural perspective plays a role in ‘Extraordinary’ wellbeing, as the study explores how the condition Raynaud’s shapes a ‘dys-appearing’ body through material experience. This paper presents research that investigates how women living with Raynaud’s negotiate their impairment through the mediums of clothing and fashion. Data were collected via in-depth, semi-structured interviews and wardrobe studies, informed by Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. The findings reveal the ‘material experience’ of ten women with ‘Extraordinary’ requirements and highlighted how aesthetics is fundamental to enhance wearer’s pleasurable and inclusive experiences on a personal and public level
