The ethnographic tradition and design

Button, Graham

doi:10.1016/s0142-694x(00)00005-3

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“…Ethnographic design research methods have been adapted from anthropology (Geertz, 1973), other social sciences (Csikszentmihalyi & Rochberg-Halton, 1981), and engineering (Button, 2000) to provide insights on how people form relations with products. Many of these studies have focused on how people create meaningful emotional relationships with products.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assistive Robotics and an Ecology of Elders Living Independently in Their Homes

Forlizzi¹,

DiSalvo²,

Gemperle³

2004

Human-Comp. Interaction

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AB S T RAC TF or elders who remain independent in their homes, the home becomes more than just a place to eat and sleep. The home becomes a place where people care for each other, and it gradually subsumes all activ ities. This article reports on an ethnographic study of aging adults who liv e independently in their homes. S eventeen elders aged 6 0 through 90 were interv iewed and observ ed in their homes in 2 Midwestern cities. The goal is to understand how robotic products might assist these people, helping them to stay independent and activ e longer. The ex perience of aging is described as an ecology of aging made up of people, products, and activ ities tak ing place in a local env ironment of the home and the surrounding community. In this env ironment, product successes and failures often hav e a dramatic impact on the ecology, throwing off a delicate balance.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assistive Robotics and an Ecology of Elders Living Independently in Their Homes

Forlizzi¹,

DiSalvo²,

Gemperle³

2004

Human-Comp. Interaction

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157

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“…It allows the detailed exploration of action, meanings and processes that develop over time within their setting of occurrence (Delamont, 2012;Hammersley & Atkinson, 1995). Ethnography has been widely applied on the study of design and construction processes (Ball & Ormerod, 2000;Bucciarelli, 1988Bucciarelli, , 1994Button, 2000;Lloyd & Deasley, 1998;Pink, Tutt, Dainty, & Gibb, 2010). It comprises a combination of methods (observation, interviews and document analysis) applicable to exploratory studies to identify what people engaged in practice do.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tools for low-energy building design: an exploratory study of the design process in action

Zapata-Lancaster

Tweed

2016

Architectural Engineering and Design Management

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Building designers face increased pressure to design low-energy buildings. Consequently, there is a growing interest in providing computational support for low-energy design via building performance simulation. This article presents an ethnographic study that investigated the design process of five low-energy buildings in England and Wales. The study was informed by design science literature and phenomenology of technology. The investigation analysed the methods deployed by designers to embed low-energy performance during design problemsolving. The findings illustrate how experience-based methods and simulation tools were used to inform low-energy building design. The work identified some of the challenges faced by designers to incorporate simulation methodologies during a routine design process. It illustrates the status of simulation tools as boundary objects that mediate the communication and negotiation between design team members. The work advocates considering the design problem-solving patterns and preferences in the development and improvement of support methods for low-energy design.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Still, users are given increasing attention as central agents in contemporary design processes and industrial product development. In recent years, design approaches primarily relying on anthropology and ethnography have been attributed to a so-called "ethnographic turn" within design studies (see e.g., Laurel, 2003;Button, 2000;Halse, 2008;Gunn et al, 2013). Inspiration from classic ethnography's participant observation methodology has fueled so-called co-design initiatives, involving non-designers in all or large parts of the design process, also beyond pinpointing and defining an initial design problem.…”

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Design thinking between rationalism and romanticism—a historical overview of competing visions

Engholm

Salamon

2017

Artifact

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This article presents a longue durée history of design thinking with particular focus on recurrent ideological tugs-of-war between two competing visions: Enlightenment ideals of logic, rationality and civic order against Romanticist ideals of artistic creativity and social change. Drawing on design history and cultural studies, the authors present a broad overview of more than 200 years of developments in European and North American design thinking, from the rise of design as a profession to the formation of a science of design. The article contributes to the history of design thinking by presenting the influence of specific, sociocultural configurations on design culture.

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The ethnographic tradition and design

Cited by 136 publications

References 11 publications

Assistive Robotics and an Ecology of Elders Living Independently in Their Homes

Assistive Robotics and an Ecology of Elders Living Independently in Their Homes

Tools for low-energy building design: an exploratory study of the design process in action

Design thinking between rationalism and romanticism—a historical overview of competing visions

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