Applied Design Research: A Mosaic of 22 Examples and Interpretations Focussing on Briding the Gap between Practice and Academics

Design and research are two fields of knowledge that each has its traditions, methods, standards and practices. These two worlds appear to be quite separate, with researchers investigating what exists, and designers visualising what could be. This book builds a bridge between both worlds by showing how design and research can be integrated to...

Idealistic visions of the future or realistic solutions?: Baby steps towards innovation leaps

Learning from prototypes

My recently started Civic Prototyping research group aims to develop new tools and methods enabling urban residents to exploratively research and develop applications of new technologies. This allows them to improve their everyday lives by<br/>taking their own initiative in creating valuable services, prod-ucts, collaborations, and shared spaces...

A quasi-experimental method for testing rural design support within a DRM framework

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the quasi-experiment setting to test the formulated design support (developed in the author’s PhD research) within a design research methodology (DRM) framework. This support intends to help designers to consciously engage rural families within a development aid scenario and increase their...

A case study on gamified interventions for team cohesion in factory work

In this article, we aim to provide insights into the design and implementation of game elements for teamwork on the work floor and to study their effect. Inventing games to break monotonous jobs is a long-standing practice, yet conscious implementation of motivational elements of games at work is a recent phenomenon. Generally, gamification is...