Context: This PhD project is based at the Institute of Design at AHO where it emerged out of the Touch research project
Goal: To develop frameworks and practices within design research that support early-phase exploration and shaping of emerging technologies.
Central research questions: How do practices within interaction design allow for exploration and shaping of new and emerging technologies? How do theories of design account for these kinds of practices, and what kinds of knowledge are used and built in this process?
Analytical frames: Exploratory design, interaction design, critical design, visual theory, actor network theory, design culture.
Methods: Practice-based design processes including prototyping, visual design, filmmaking and use of social media, reflection on action, literature review, theoretical modelling of design.
Deliverables: PhD thesis (3 journal articles, Kapa, set of films and visual media).
Duration: 1 September 2009 – 31 December 2010.
Funding: AHO.
Project site: www.nearfield.org
Publications:
Depth of field, Discursive design research through film. Arnall, T. Martinussen, E. (forthcoming 2009)
Exhibitions: Touch: Exploring RFID: Interactive exhibition at Nordes 09, the Nordic Design Research Conference, Engaging Artifacts, Oslo, Norway, September 2009.
Events:
A model of user experience in networked products, presentation at the VERDIKT programme conference, Oslo, 4 November 2009.
Designing from the web to the world, at the Designing Mobile Experiences session at Barcelona Design Week by Timo Arnall, 29 October 2009.
Video in interaction design research, presentation at the Online research mediation & the arts seminar hosted by the GRIG project, InterMedia, University of Oslo & Institute of Design, Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO), Oslo by Timo Arnall, 13 October 2009.
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Morrison