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DESIGN OF PERSONAL TECHNOLOGIES
A Themed issue of Personal technologies (ISSN 0949-2054, Springer-Verlag)
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/faculty/cpim/PeTe.html
EDITORS
David Frohlich, Jim Girard & Rachel Murphy, HP Labs Bristol
Deadline: 1st April 2000
AIMS
There is increasing recognition of the importance of design
disciplines in the computer industry as computers move out of the
office and into more domestic and personal spheres of life. The
success of mass market consumer products is seen to depend as much on
their brand image and emotional appeal as it does on their
functionality and usability, particularly in commodity markets where
products may be indistinguishable in terms of their technical
features. Furthermore, the rapid development of new portable,
wearable and embedded form factors for computing devices have
increased demand for imaginative designers who can help to envision,
design and build novel computing appliances for a new range of users
and uses. These developments are leading some companies to
deliberately establish design expertise at the heart of their new
product development process.
At the same time, the design industry is realising that it has a new
role to play in consumer product innovation. Rather than being
brought in towards the end of the product definition process to
fulfill a well specified design briefing, designers are finding
themselves increasingly involved in earlier parts of the definition
process. In response, advanced design houses and companies are
developing new methods particularly suitable to this situation. As a
result a new form of 'design research' is emerging in which design is
applied to envision potential product spaces rather than realise
specific product concepts.
CONTRIBUTIONS
In this special issue we would like you to describe and debate these
trends in further detail, and explore their implications for the
development of more personal technologies in the future.
The kind of topics that might be addressed include:
* Case studies demonstrating the importance of design in consumer
product innovation
* Illustrations of how non-functional aspects of products affect
their perception and use
* Descriptions clarifying different types of design
* How to do design research
* Trends in contemporary design
* The role of design in consumer product development
* The role of designers in multidisciplinary teams
Submissions can be of any length. Given the emphasis on design, these
might include use of line drawings, computer graphics and colour
photographs. We are also exploring the possibility of publishing
supporting multimedia materials and demonstrations with an on-line
version of the journal available to subscribers.
We expect the audience for this issue to comprise practitioners,
researchers and managers in both consumer product and user interface
development, who are sympathetic to the role of design in their work
and organisation. We hope the issue will become a reference work that
they can learn from, and point to as establishing design on a first
class footing with engineering and human factors inputs to new
product development. Because of the importance of this topic, the
individual issue will also be made available by Springer-Verlag as a
one-off purchase.
DEADLINES
The deadline for contributions is 1st APRIL 2000. Contributions will
be rapidly peer-reviewed by an international panel and will be
published in Volume 4, Numbers 3 or 4 (2000) of Personal Technologies.
FORMAT
Contributions should follow the submission guidelines on the Personal
Technologies web site. Electronic submissions are preferred and
should be mailed to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
CONTACT
For advice on a submission, please contact any of the special issue
editors or Peter Thomas, editor-in-chief:
David Frohlich <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Jim Girard <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Rachel Murphy <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Peter Thomas, editor-in-chief, <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
If you intend to provide a contribution, please make contact as soon
as possible.
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