Dear List members,
I'm a PhD student at Middlesex University, London, UK. I focus on making online face-to-face communication easier for older people by employing constructive design research as my method (http://teletalker.org). I would like to make sure that I apply the method most effectively and although have read about it*, feel that I could learn more from practical research examples in context.
I'm calling all 'constructive design reseachers' or researchers using 'research through design' who are currently working with this method or have so in the past to either reply to this mailing list or to email me directly on [log in to unmask]
I would like to learn from your experience applying the method. In particular, what are the pitfalls to look out for? Where do you feel you had spent more time than anticipated? What do think was unnecessary in hindsight? Why do you feel 'constructive design research' was more applicable than other research methods for your investigation?
For your guidance I'm grateful (in advance).
Marianne Markowski
*Literature for constructive design research:
Bardzell, S., Bardzell, J., Forlizzi, J., Zimmerman, J., & Antanitis, J. (2012). Critical Design and Critical Theory: The Challenge of Designing for Provocation. DIS (pp. 288 – 297). Newcastle, UK.
Basaballe, D. A., & Halskov, K. (2012). Dynamics of Research through Design. DIS (pp. 58–67). Newcastle, UK.
Gaver, W. W. (2012). What should we expect from research through design? CHI’12 (pp. 937 – 946). Austin, Texas.
Koskinen, I., Zimmerman, J., Binder, T., Redstrom, J., & Wensveen, S. (2011). Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom. Morgan Kaufmann.
Zimmerman, J., Stolterman, E., & Forlizzi, J. (2010). An Analysis and Critique of Research through Design : towards a formalization of a research approach (pp. 310–319). Aarhus Denmark: DIS 2010.
Marianne Markowski
Middlesex University
Website: http://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/marianne-markowski
Blog: http://researchseniorfriendsonline.blogspot.com/
Linked In: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/marianne-markowski/6/328/596
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