Authors:
Kristina Höök, Jeffrey Bardzell, Simon Bowen, Peter Dalsgaard, Stuart Reeves, Annika Waern
Interaction design (IxD) research cuts through many domains of HCI (work, leisure, games, health applications, ubiquitous computing) yet remains distinctive. There are convincing arguments that Research through Design (RtD) is a valid research method in our field. Important to these arguments is how RtD allows IxD researchers to actually do design as an empirical method to gain knowledge, rather than aligning with the user study tradition. But the early articulations of RtD did not specify how to articulate, validate, and constitute the knowledge gained through design research. At a recent workshop at CHI [1], we asked ourselves what forms…
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