Design and the Social Sciences (eBook, ePUB)

Making Connections
Redaktion: Frascara, Jorge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The social sciences have a distinctive contribution to make to the understanding and handling of design issues, both in product and systems design and in the design of the built environment. The role of cognitive psychology, particularly ergonomics, to the design process has traditionally been well appreciated. Because it provides important insight

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134480869
• Artikelnr.: 57532826

Autorenporträt

Jorge Frascara

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. From User-Centred to Participatory Design
Approaches. Human Factors for Pleasure Seekers. Communications Artifacts:
The Design of Objects and the Object of Design. People-Centred Design:
Complexities and Uncertainties. Social Sciences and Design Innovation.
Design Language: Confluence of Behavioural, Social and Cultural Factors.
Design Moves: Approximating a Desired Future with Users. Emotion and Urban
Experience: Implications for Design. An Interdisciplinary Approach in the
Development of Design Knowledge and its Application: The Case of Wayfinding
Research and Design. Preventing Drug Interactions in Older Adults: A
Collaborative Study. Fieldnotes from 'Home': Anthropology and Design on
Exhibition. Research and Design Collaboration: A Case Study. The Technical
and the Social in Engineering Education. Making Connections: Design and the
Social Sciences. Appearance, Form, and the Retrieval of Prior Knowledge.
The Influence of Affect on Cognitive Processes. Gendered Spaces of
Domesticity. Social Science as a Design Profession: New Visions and
Relationships. Two Weddings and Still no Funeral: Sociology, Design and the
Interprofessional Project. The Working Groups. Conclusions: Design and the
Social Sciences, a Reconnaissance. Notes on Contributors. Index.