Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

From user-centered to participatory design approaches

Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders

Human factors for pleasure seekers

Patrick W. Jordan

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

Jim Wilson

People-centered design: complexities and uncertainties

Jorge Frascara

Social sciences and design innovation

Bernd Meurer

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

Dietmar R. Winkler

Design moves: approximating a desired future with users

Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

Emotion and urban experience: implications for design

Ausra Burns

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

Romedi Passini

Preventing drug interactions in older adults: a collaborative study

Zoe Strickler

Patricia Neafsey

Fieldnotes from home: anthropology and design on exhibition

Rae Bridgman

Research and design collaboration: a case study

Louise St Pierre

The technical and the social in engineering education

Maurits Ertsen

Making connections: design and the social sciences

Desmond Rochfort

Appearance, form, and the retrieval of prior knowledge

Peter Dixon

Tenaha O'reilly

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

Robert C. Sinclair

Sean E. Moore

Carrie A. Lavis

Alexander S. Soldat

Gendered spaces of domesticity

Rosalind A. Sydie

Social science as a design profession: new visions and relationships

Rob Shields

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

Christena Nippert-Eng

Design and the social sciences

The Working Groups

Conclusions: design and the social sciences, a reconnaissance

Jorge Frascara

Index