Research through Design

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@inproceedings{zimmerman2007research,

author = {Zimmerman, John and Forlizzi, Jodi and Evenson, Shelley},

title = {Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI},

year = {2007},

isbn = {9781595935939},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {New York, NY, USA},

doi = {10.1145/1240624.1240704},

abstract = {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.},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},

pages = {493–502},

numpages = {10},

keywords = {HCI research, design, design method, design theory, interaction design, interaction design research, research through design, wicked problems},

location = {San Jose, California, USA},

series = {CHI '07}

}