All Outputs (2)

Making and Unfinishedness: Designing Toolkits for Negotiation (2017)
Journal Article
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2017). Making and Unfinishedness: Designing Toolkits for Negotiation. Design Journal, 20(sup1), S3966-S3974. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352899

The diffusion and democratisation of computing technologies and physical prototyping systems has supported the rise of Do-It-Yourself culture. In the context of design innovation, this shift has undoubtedly blurred the lines between the roles of amat... Read More about Making and Unfinishedness: Designing Toolkits for Negotiation.

Exploring People's Emotional Bond with Places in the City: A Pilot Study (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Stals, S., Smyth, M., & Mival, O. (2017). Exploring People's Emotional Bond with Places in the City: A Pilot Study. In DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (207-212). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079147

This paper outlines a thesis that seeks to understand how people's experiences of places in the urban environment that are meaningful to them on a personal level, and in particular their stories and emotions connected to those personally significant... Read More about Exploring People's Emotional Bond with Places in the City: A Pilot Study.