Yes, Ken!
It seems indeed "that contextual sensitivity would be an important factor
in design research".
Please allow me to submit, in addition to contexts of use of artifacts,
that also similar importance/sensitivity should be equally given to
researching users, other than just direct operators as often is the case in
most of design research. At least four additional categories of users, not
often researched, both humans and eventually animals, all more or less
actively interact with some given artifacts in certain specific contexts.
And third, researching on artifacts alone, and from the usual personal
'ideas' and 'creativity', I believe that is not the way to attain the goal
of becoming scientific as a field. Rather, the triad of artifact, its many
users, and its specific contexts of use, would constitute a full fledged
scientific research domain exclusive to design-researchers.
Objective - as opposed to more often personalized - research results on the
combined triad above would thus easily lend themselves to replicability by
peer designers, and hence enhancing credibility, legitimacy, and pertinence
- with more decent pay accordingly!! - of our interventions in society.
Francois
Kigali
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