Design and the Social Sciences Making Connections

Name: Design and the Social Sciences Making Connections
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ISBN: 9780415273763

ISBN-10: 0415273765

ISBN-13: 9780415273763

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jorge Frascara

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This book explains how social psychology, sociology and anthropology can provide valuable techniques for investigating the relationship between people and design. Written not only by designers and applied theorists, but also by specialists working at the front line in the consumer product industries, the book discusses the existing realities and the benefits that an interdisciplinary approach could bring to research, practice and education. It also identifies and defines possible directions for interdisciplinary work connecting design and the social sciences. Design and the Social Sciences provides methods that will result in products that are functional and ergonomically sound.

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 4/25/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Preface


Acknowledgements



From user-centered to participatory design approaches




Human factors for pleasure seekers




Communications artifacts: the design of objects and the object of design




People-centered design: complexities and uncertainties




Social sciences and design innovation




Design language: confluence of behavioral, social, and cultural factors




Design moves: approximating a desired future with users




Emotion and urban experience: implications for design




Wayfinding research and design: an interdisciplinary approach in the development of design knowledge and its application




Preventing drug interactions in older adults: a collaborative study




Fieldnotes from home: anthropology and design on exhibition




Research and design collaboration: a case study




The technical and the social in engineering education




Making connections: design and the social sciences




Appearance, form, and the retrieval of prior knowledge




The influence of affect on cognitive processes: implications of the informative nature of affect in the area of industrial and product design




Gendered spaces of domesticity




Social science as a design profession: new visions and relationships




Two weddings and still no funeral: sociology, design and the interprofessional project




Design and the social sciences



Conclusions: design and the social sciences, a reconnaissance



Index