Robbie,
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>Should we design researchers
>consider these artefacts as a publication? If so, who will count them?
Even though the stuff designed may be based on systematic studies and organised by
general principles, and even though the products are examples or embodiments of a
proposition, principle, thesis, problem or other results from such studies, they are not
publications in themselves. In the same way, patents are not publications (even though
some people count them). Some design researchers closer to art than I am may disagree
with me. (My background is in cognitive science and interaction design in a computer
science context.)
However, they do count as a merit. It is difficult to do _some_ kinds of design research
without any experience in designing. Furthermore, as a PhD student your are training not
only to be a researcher, but also developing your career including ability to teach and
ability to do leading professional development in the field of design. If you in the future
want a teaching position or want to be a leading professional, the productions you have
made do count. But simply counting the number of projects in a portfolio is a somewhat
superficial way of judging a portfolio.
Cheers,
// Matti
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Mattias Arvola, Ph.D.
Sr. lecturer in Interaction Design.
Linköping University and Södertörn University.
www.arvola.se
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