Design and the social sciences : making connections

Frascara, Jorge. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780415273763
ISBN: 0415273765
Physical Description: print
xvii, 238 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis/Contemporary Trends Institute, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

From user-centered to participatory design approaches / Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders -- Human factors for pleasure seekers / Patrick W. Jordan -- Communications artifacts : the design of objects and the object of design / Jim Wilson -- People-centered design : complexities and uncertainties / Jorge Frascara -- Social sciences and design innovation / Bernd Meurer -- Design language : confluence of behavioral, social, and cultural factors / Dietmar R. Winkler -- Design moves : approximating a desired future with users / Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl -- Emotion and urban experience : implications for design / Ausra Burns -- Wayfinding research and design : an interdisciplinary approach in the development of design knowledge and its application / Romedi Passini -- Preventing drug interactions in older adults : a collaborative study / Zoe Strickler and Patricia Neafsey -- Fieldnotes from home : anthropology and design on exhibition / Rae Bridgman -- Research and design collaboration : a case study / Louise St Pierre -- The technical and the social in engineering education / Maurits Ertsen -- Making connections : design and the social sciences / Desmond Rochfort -- Appearance, form, and the retrieval of prior knowledge / Peter Dixon and Tenaha O'Reilly -- The influence of affect on cognitive processes : implications of the informative nature of affect in the area of industrial and product design / Robert C. Sinclair ... [et al.] -- Gendered spaces of domesticity / Rosalind A. Sydie -- Social science as a design profession : new visions and relationships / Rob Shields -- Two weddings and still no funeral : sociology, design and the interprofessional project / Christena Nippert-Eng -- Design and the social sciences / The Working Groups -- Conclusions : design and the social sciences, a reconnaissance / Jorge Frascara.