Abstract
Design of future smart environments (and services and
products included in these environments) requires agile
and stakeholder involved methodologies for the greater
success among targeted user populations.
Furthermore the factors affecting to the design decisions
in the future are sundry and in many cases frequently in
conflict. Currently user and usability studies are
conducted in order to get better effectiveness,
efficiency, and user satisfaction and user acceptance for
new products and services. Even though the design
approach is called human-centred or user-centred the
design of new products and services has been quite
technology or market driven in Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) business. Instead of
putting technology or market to the core of design
process and product development the human needs and
values should form the fundamental basis of design. Human
Driven Design (HDD) refers to the design approach which
broadens the perspective from focused product or service
development process model to the more holistic design
perspective. Stakeholder Based Design approach (SBD)
furthermore broadens the scope and role of involved
participant groups in the actual design process.
Integrating HDD and SBD includes inevitably ethical
assessment of design process and artifacts while trade
offs in design have to be well justified Hence HDD and
SBD call for new
Empowering Design (ED) practices which could accomplish
more deliberative but still agile approach to design of
future smart environments.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Ambient Intelligence Perspectives |
| Subtitle of host publication | Selected Papers from the First International Ambient Intelligence Forum 2008 |
| Editors | Peter Mikulecký, T. Lisková, P. Cech, V. Bures |
| Place of Publication | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Pages | 129 -136 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-60750-388-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-58603-946-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
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Ikonen, V. (2009). Towards Empowering Design Practises. In P. Mikulecký, T. Lisková, P. Cech, & V. Bures (Eds.), Ambient Intelligence Perspectives: Selected Papers from the First International Ambient Intelligence Forum 2008 (pp. 129 -136). IOS Press.