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Exploring design as a research activity

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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Design research is a knowledge generating activity, yielding a valuable resource for a science of design. It extrapolates this knowledge in the form of design criteria, criteria weighting, design alternatives, and general rules for choosing between alternatives and deciding on criteria. Unlike the disciplines that have traditionally informed design research, design research as a field of its own has no agreed upon methods for evaluating its own work. Taken a step further, the criteria for what is and is not design research itself is vague at best.

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Gadamer, H-G. (1960, tr. 1975) Truth and Method. New York: The Seabury Press.
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National Science Foundation Science of Design Program Solicitation. Retrieved March 30, 2006, from http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04552/nsf04552.htm
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Simon, H.A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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    DIS '06: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
    June 2006
    384 pages
    ISBN:1595933670
    DOI:10.1145/1142405

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