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Design research

methodological innovation through messiness

Alethea Blackler, Oksana Zelenko, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, Markus Rittenbruch, Gavin Sade

pp. 131-154

The third wave of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) involves more ubiquitous and embedded forms of computing. Making these useful, usable and even delightful for people needs design research. The more technologies become enmeshed in our lives and the more dependent upon them we become, the more essential it is that they are simple for everyone to use and they do not let us down in those annoying ways we have become used to tolerating. Embedding computing into more and more of the objects and environments we interact with makes them less visible but more ubiquitous, making their usability essential but challenging at the same time. Design research is a mechanism which can help researchers, programmers and designers to understand how to create better twenty-first century computing systems and environments. This chapter discusses how design research can contribute to allowing third wave HCI to benefit the lives of all citizens rather than frustrate them.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73374-6_8

Full citation:

Blackler, A. , Zelenko, O. , Chamorro-Koc, M. , Rittenbruch, M. , Sade, G. (2018)., Design research: methodological innovation through messiness, in M. Filimowicz & V. Tzankova (eds.), New directions in third wave human-computer interaction 2, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 131-154.

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