Empowering Users through Design Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services

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 empowe...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bihanic, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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