HCC: Small: Design Methods: How They are Understood, Selected, and Used by Practitioners

HCC：小：设计方法：从业者如何理解、选择和使用它们

• 批准号: 1115532
• 负责人: Erik Stolterman
• 金额: $ 46.71万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1115532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Design; Methods; How

Huge efforts and funds are today deployed, in both academia and industry, with the purpose to develop new tools, techniques, and methods to support the design of innovative and creative interactive digital products and services. However, while a large proportion of these attempts lead to research insights, they are not always successfully transformed into design methods that fit the reality that practitioners experience. This lack of understanding of practice has in many cases led to a substantial lack of trust from practitioners towards the value of research contributions, while at the same time leading to frustrated researchers not understanding the lack of enthusiasm from practitioners when it comes to adapting new design methods emanating from research efforts. The proposed research will develop a solid understanding of this unfortunate situation by carefully investigating existing practice from the perspective of practitioners. The research proposal is made up of five major studies and activities, conducted in parallel over three years. These activities are a combination of analytical studies of design methods and interview studies with practitioners (designers who employ design methods to create products and systems) and researchers (design method developers). The research will lead to insights and principles suitable for practitioners on how to strategize and handle their choice and use of design tools, techniques, and methods, and to insights and principles suitable for organizations for their strategic choices of design methods. Most importantly, the research will lead to educational guidelines suitable for design education on how to professionally think about and handle design methods. With increased knowledge about what constitutes appropriate design methods, these results will increase the probability for more creative and innovative designs of interactive products and systems.

如今，在学术界和行业中都部署了巨大的努力和资金，目的是开发新的工具，技术和方法来支持创新和创造性的交互式数字产品和服务的设计。但是，尽管这些尝试中很大一部分导致了研究见解，但它们并不总是成功地转变为适合从业者体验的现实的设计方法。在许多情况下，缺乏对实践的理解导致从业人员对研究贡献的价值缺乏信任，同时导致沮丧的研究人员不了解从业人员在调整研究工作中提出的新设计方法时缺乏热情。拟议的研究将通过从从业者的角度仔细调查现有实践，从而对这种不幸的情况有了深入的了解。 该研究建议由五个主要研究和活动组成，这些研究和活动在三年内并行进行。这些活动是设计方法的分析研究和对从业者（采用设计方法创建产品和系统的设计师）和研究人员（设计方法开发人员）的研究的结合。这项研究将导致洞察力和原则适用于从业人员，如何制定和处理其设计工具，技术和方法的选择和使用，以及适合组织的洞察力和原则，以实现其设计方法的战略选择。最重要的是，这项研究将导致教育指南适合于设计如何专业思考和处理设计方法的教育。借助越来越多的构成适当设计方法的知识，这些结果将增加交互式产品和系统更具创造力和创新设计的可能性。