1. Design Research for Social Scientists: Reading Instructions for This Issue.
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Hummels, Caroline, Redström, Johan, and Koskinen, Ilpo
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INDUSTRIAL design ,INDUSTRIAL engineering ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,SOFTWARE engineering ,PROTOTYPES ,SOCIAL sciences ,PHYSICAL sciences - Abstract
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.
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- 2007
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