Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zimmerman, John
• Forlizzi, Jodi
• Evenson, Shelley

Titel

Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI

Ist Teil von

• Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems; 28 Apr.-03 May 2007, 2007, p.493-502

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ACM Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For years the HCI community has struggled to integrate design in research and practice. While design has gained a strong foothold in practice, it has had much less impact on the HCI research community. In this paper we propose a new model for interaction design research within HCI. Following a research through design approach, designers produce novel integrations of HCI research in an attempt to make the right thing: a product that transforms the world from its current state to a preferred state. This model allows interaction designers to make research contributions based on their strength in addressing under-constrained problems. To formalize this model, we provide a set of four lenses for evaluating the research contribution and a set of three examples to illustrate the benefits of this type of research.