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Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI
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For years the HCI community has struggled to integrate design in research and practice. While design has gained a strong foothold in practice, it has had much less impact on the HCI research community. In this paper we propose a new model for interaction design research within HCI. Following a research through design approach, designers produce novel integrations of HCI research in an attempt to make the right thing: a product that transforms the world from its current state to a preferred state. This model allows interaction designers to make research contributions based on their strength in addressing under-constrained problems. To formalize this model, we provide a set of four lenses for evaluating the research contribution and a set of three examples to illustrate the benefits of this type of research.
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- Authors
- Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J., & Evenson, S.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2007-04-29
- Pages
- 493-502
- OpenAlex
- W2133443878
- Cited by
- 2,304
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 23.88
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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