Jorge Frascara (ed.)

Design and the Social Sciences

Making Connections
Herausgeber: Frascara, Jorge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780415273763
• ISBN-10: 0415273765
• Artikelnr.: 23884952

Autorenporträt

Jorge Frascara

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. From User-Centred to Participatory Design
Approaches. Human Factors for Pleasure Seekers. Communications Artifacts:
The Design of Objects and the Object of Design. People-Centred Design:
Complexities and Uncertainties. Social Sciences and Design Innovation.
Design Language: Confluence of Behavioural, Social and Cultural Factors.
Design Moves: Approximating a Desired Future with Users. Emotion and Urban
Experience: Implications for Design. An Interdisciplinary Approach in the
Development of Design Knowledge and its Application: The Case of Wayfinding
Research and Design. 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. 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. The Working Groups. Conclusions: Design and the
Social Sciences, a Reconnaissance. Notes on Contributors. Index.