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Doctoral Researcher: Young-Ae Hahn
Advisor: Judith Gregory (ID)
Title: Mediating Artifacts in Design Research
Early Abstract: Mediating artifacts such as prototypes and probes have been used in all phases of user research, but their influences on collected data have not been thoroughly discussed. In this research, the roles of mediating artifacts and relevant theoretical concepts will be examined in literature review. Some artifacts that serve as probes in design research/projects to facilitate idea generation will be investigated with the author's original experiments in which characteristics of effective probes will be identified. This research will lay partial guidelines in designing, choosing, and using tangible artifacts as probes for data collection and idea exploration in the early stages of design research/projects, making research activities fun and engaging experiences for both researchers and participants.
Relevant Publications
- Hahn, Y., and Gregory, J. Abstractness of Mediating Artifacts As Probes.
Proceedings of the Nordic Design Research Conference 07', Stockholm, Sweden 2007 - Hahn, Y., and Gregory, J.
Working with Children and Props: Two Adolescence User Research Cases with Props.
Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, Trento, Italy, 2006. - Hahn, Y.
A User Research for the Development of Elderly Patients' Medication Reminder, ti:MED. Conference Proceedings of Include 2005, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 2005 - Hahn, Y. MonkeySmart!: A User Research on the 6th Graders' Calculator-Aided Learning.
Proceedings of the International Design Conference, Yun-Lin, Taiwan, 2005
Copyright © 2007
Institute of Design, IIT
Comments: yahahn at id dot iit dot edu