Enabled by Design - Speaker - Raymond Holt: Research through Design

Show and Tell: Research Through Design

Dr Raymond Holt Insitute of Design, Robotics and Optimisation School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds [email protected]

Research through Design I work with children and therapists to design rehabilitative games. Working with users to denerate and evaluate their ideas helps me to better understand their views and needs.

Together Through Play

Goal: Investigate aspirations of disabled and non-disabled children for playing together, and barriers to their doing so.

Methodology

Initial Interviews

Ideation

Test Lo-Fi Prototypes

Test Hi-Fidelity Prototypes

Sociological Analysis

Emerging themes,

interpretations

Create Lo-Fi Prototypes

Create Hi-Fi Prototypes

Children Engineering Sociology

Lo-fi prototypes

views on play

Game Concepts

Responses to Lo-fi prototypes

Hi-fi prototypes

Observations, transcripts

Barriers to play Participants: 22 Children aged 7 to 10: 6 disabled.

Outcomes: Designs

Hi-Fi

Lo-Fi

Final Outcome

BUTTON BASH

Research through Design

Practitioner(s)

End users

Artifact

Contributions

Design principles, know-‐how & knowledge

Contribution to the current

ensemble being designed

Utility for users

Alpha design & prototype

Researcher(s)

Betadesign & prototype

Participants

More General Application – design as a tool for talking

(adapted from Sein et al, 2011)

So What…?

For Today: Aim is to better understand problems - not necessarily generate solutions – though solutions are good, too! Get dialogue going – raise awareness of opportunities for bespoke manufacture, engaging users in designing the world around them. Next Steps: Students at UoL to take ideas forward as part of their dissertations. Opportunities to look at how we develop future projects – grants, etc. Discuss how partners can work together in future to build on the findings.