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Design Research for Interaction: Lessons and Insights

Explore design research types, SIA history, kinetic typography lessons, and future directions in human-centered design interactions. Discover the importance of applied and theoretical research in creating situationally appropriate interactions. Learn about the development of design theories and principles through case-by-case, applied, and theoretical research approaches, with a focus on human visual perception.

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Design Research for Interaction: Lessons and Insights

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  1. DESIGN RESEARCH for Situationally Appropriate Interactions Jodi Forlizzi HCII and School of Design September, 2001

  2. What I’ll talk about today... • What is design research? • My history of interest in Situationally Appropriate Interactions • Lessons learned from research in kinetic typography • What’s next?

  3. What is design research? • A new field • More than doing research related to a specific product or conceptual outcome • Three types – case-by-case – applied – theoretical

  4. Case-by-case research • Solution of individual problems • Study of individual cases • Outcome is generalization that makes a contribution to the field of design – for example, case studies or products

  5. Case-by-case research

  6. Applied research • Investigation of a group of problems or phenomena • Discover rules of thumb, principles, or processes that can be shared across a range of cases • Outcomes: academic papers, demonstration products, design principles

  7. Applied research

  8. Theoretical research • Investigation of principles and causes related to a particular problem • Involves development of theory or speculation related to the making of products, investigating the practice and consequences of design • Outcomes: papers and contributions to design theory

  9. Theoretical research

  10. Characterizing approaches Two basic flavors — • Make a bunch of stuff to learn new design theories or principles • Observe a human need and try to develop something to address it • Today’s example is a case of the former • Are there advantages and drawbacks in approaches?

  11. A history of interest in SIA Overarching research questions: • What dynamic visual and auditory events affect human perception? • Can we design such events systematically to evoke intended responses?

  12. Kinetic typography • Research done as master’s student in 1996-1997 with Suguru Ishizaki and Shannon Ford • First three months very free-form • Largely unspecified research plan • “Five-minute” writing task each day

  13. Kinetic typography: lessons learned • We need two levels of investigation: applied and theoretical research • Applied research to address perceptual and aesthetic issues – applications for elements besides textual ones • Theoretical research to address response, context, appropriateness, and replicability

  14. What’s next? • Look at a body of examples in the world • Make more examples from other domains • Still limited to largely conceptual stuff

  15. What’s next? • Abstraction of issues • New insights made more robust by input from other disciplines • Current interest: human visual perception

  16. DISCUSSION

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