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The article explores an issue on a more technical end of design research which is conducted in industrial design programs in leading art and design universities, technical universities and software research programs in Europe. It presents a collection of papers that represents some of the best pieces of ongoing work in that field. The research aims to provide readers a map that would be helpful to understand the papers in terms relevant to a person with background in the social sciences. The writers have established a device, an artwork or an environment which is used as a kind of physical hypothesis to determine whether their theoretical work made sense.