STATUS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN DESIGN RESEARCH: A REVIEW OF ICED AND DESIGN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
DS 36: Proceedings DESIGN 2006, the 9th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2006
Editor: Marjanovic, D.
Author: Lauche, K.
Section: HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN DESIGN WORKSHOP
Page(s): 1459-1466
Abstract
The paper reviews the empirical research on human behaviour in design presented at past ICED and Design conferences. While a quarter of all conference papers dealt with aspects of human behaviour, only 40% of these papers referred to the relevant psychological literature on research methods, cognition, team processes and organizational aspects of product development. The paper discusses if there is a paradigm change towards more empirical research on designing and how design science could benefit from drawing more on existing research on human behaviour to then explain the specifics of designing.
Keywords: human behaviour in design, design thinking, teams, organisational aspects