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• Experimental Design Research

Approaches, Perspectives, Applications

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• Philip Cash 0 ,
• Tino Stanković 1 ,
• Mario Štorga 2

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Swiss Federal Institute of Tech. Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

University of zagreb, zagreb, croatia.

• Presents a new paradigm for integrative experimental design research
• Offers a new perspective and guidance for researchers engaged in design research
• Paves the way for the next generation of researchers in the field
• Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front matter, the foundations of experimental design research, an introduction to experimental design research.

• Philip Cash, Tino Stanković, Mario Štorga

Evaluation of Empirical Design Studies and Metrics

• Mahmoud Dinar, Joshua D. Summers, Jami Shah, Yong-Seok Park

Quantitative Research Principles and Methods for Human-Focused Research in Engineering Design

• Mark A. Robinson

Classical Approaches to Experimental Design Research

Creativity in individual design work.

• Yukari Nagai

Methods for Studying Collaborative Design Thinking

• Andy Dong, Maaike Kleinsmann

The Integration of Quantitative Biometric Measures and Experimental Design Research

• Quentin Lohmeyer, Mirko Meboldt

Integration of User-Centric Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives in Experimental Design Research

• Claus-Christian Carbon

Computation Approaches to Experimental Design Research

The complexity of design networks: structure and dynamics, using network science to support design research: from counting to connecting.

• Pedro Parraguez, Anja Maier

Computational Modelling of Teamwork in Design

• Ricardo Sosa

Human and Computational Approaches for Design Problem-Solving

• Paul Egan, Jonathan Cagan

Building on Experimental Design Research

Theory building in experimental design research.

• Imre Horváth

Synthesizing Knowledge in Design Research

• Kalle A. Piirainen

Scientific Models from Empirical Design Research

• John S. Gero, Jeff W. T. Kan
• Complex Network Visualization
• Design Research Community
• Experimental Design Research Complexity
• Integrative Experimental Design Research
• Measures and Experimental Design Research
• Qualitative Approaches to Experimental Design Research
• Quantitative Approaches to Experimental Design Research
• Quantitative Biometric

About this book

This book presents a new, multidisciplinary perspective on and paradigm for integrative experimental design research. It addresses various perspectives on methods, analysis and overall research approach, and how they can be synthesized to advance understanding of design. It explores the foundations of experimental approaches and their utility in this domain, and brings together analytical approaches to promote an integrated understanding. The book also investigates where these approaches lead to and how they link design research more fully with other disciplines (e.g. psychology, cognition, sociology, computer science, management).

Above all, the book emphasizes the integrative nature of design research in terms of the methods, theories, and units of study—from the individual to the organizational level. Although this approach offers many advantages, it has inherently led to a situation in current research practice where methods are diverging and integration between individual, team and organizational understanding is becoming increasingly tenuous, calling for a multidisciplinary and transdiscipinary perspective. Experimental design research thus offers a powerful tool and platform for resolving these challenges.

Providing an invaluable resource for the design research community, this book paves the way for the next generation of researchers in the field by bridging methods and methodology. As such, it will especially benefit postgraduate students and researchers in design research, as well as engineering designers.

Editors and Affiliations

Philip Cash

Tino Stanković

Mario Štorga

Bibliographic Information

Book Title : Experimental Design Research

Book Subtitle : Approaches, Perspectives, Applications

Editors : Philip Cash, Tino Stanković, Mario Štorga

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33781-4

Publisher : Springer Cham

eBook Packages : Engineering , Engineering (R0)

Copyright Information : Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-319-33779-1 Published: 27 May 2016

Softcover ISBN : 978-3-319-81600-5 Published: 30 May 2018

eBook ISBN : 978-3-319-33781-4 Published: 17 May 2016

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : XII, 270

Number of Illustrations : 26 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour

Topics : Engineering Design , Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design , Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics , Industrial Design

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Experimental Design Research - Approaches, Perspectives, Applications

This book presents a new, multidisciplinary perspective on and paradigm for integrative experimental design research. It addresses various perspectives on methods, analysis and overall research approach, and how they can be synthesized to advance understanding of design. It explores the foundations of experimental approaches and their utility in this domain, and brings together analytical approaches to promote an integrated understanding. The book also investigates where these approaches lead to and how they link design research more fully with other disciplines (e.g. psychology, cognition, sociology, computer science, management). Above all, the book emphasizes the integrative nature of design research in terms of the methods, theories, and units of study—from the individual to the organizational level. Although this approach offers many advantages, it has inherently led to a situation in current research practice where methods are diverging and integration between individual, team and organizational understanding is becoming increasingly tenuous, calling for a multidisciplinary and transdiscipinary perspective. Experimental design research thus offers a powerful tool and platform for resolving these challenges. Providing an invaluable resource for the design research community, this book paves the way for the next generation of researchers in the field by bridging methods and methodology. As such, it will especially benefit postgraduate students and researchers in design research, as well as engineering designers.

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Experimentation is often considered a constituent part of the design process and designing in general, yet its exact function and identity is open to a wide variety of interpretations. For example experimentation is often confused with differentiation or iteration. The relationship between scientific and industrial design experimentation; rationale, process, objectives and methods have rarely been considered. This paper will reflect on the role of experimentation in industrial design and compare its activity to that in the scientific world. Through case studies (from the new Experimental design strand at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College’s Innovation Design Engineering dual MA/MSc) a methodology of balanced mapping and exploration will be discussed. Scientific experiments have to be repeatable in order to be valid, yet in the design world this is often impossible due to the tackling of ‘wicked’ problems that change the very nature of the problem itself, preventing repetition. In practical terms designers value a unique ‘one-off’ approach helping to guarantee the innovation and originality of their solution. At the heart of this enquiry is the difference between design experimentation: designing using experimental methods and experimental design, a fundamental creative methodology for the foundation of new industrial designs, systems and technologies.

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The term “design experiments” was introduced in 1992, in articles by Ann Brown (1992) and Allan Collins (1992). Design experiments were developed as a way to carry out formative research to test and refine educational designs based on principles derived from prior research. More recently the term design research has been applied to this kind of work. In this article, we outline the goals of design research and how it is related to other methodologies.We illustrate how design research is carried out with two very different examples. And we provide guidelines for how design research can best be carried out in the future.

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The evolution of sciences and technologies, and their impact on society, raise new research questions which constantly tend to expand the ways to design research – in terms of topics of interests, approaches, and contaminations –; research questions that can be relevant for design knowledge, practice, and education. Starting from these considerations, the aim of the Fifth Swiss Design Network Symposium is to present an overview on design research in order to outline those theories, methods and practices that influence and reshape the design discipline. The results of the conference, published in this book, show that today design research covers a wide range of topics and acts upon the different levels of the design discipline. In fact, the contents of this book move from the theoretical to the methodological to the practical levels of the discipline and give us different kinds of contributions, from general to specific ones.

In design practice and in design research the term ‘experiment’ is widely used and often misused. To some extent, this can be ascribed to the fact that the experimental method comes close to or partly overlaps the approaches of ‘trial and error’ and ‘reflection-in-action’, as defined by Donald Schön. Nevertheless, these methods or rather approaches differ in regard to their aims, results, and context of application. Based on an investigation in design literature and various case examples from practice-led doctoral research, this paper attempts to highlight the differences between scholarly experiment,‘trial and error’ and ‘reflection-in-action’. The initial point of this investigation is from the perspective of the so-called New Experimentalism: a branch of the philosophy of natural science, and from the work of Ian Hacking that redirected and broadened the traditional conception of experiment. Hence, the role of creative practice in design research will be scrutinized from the perspective of New Experimentalism. The goal is to justify the role of artefacts in practice-led design research and in making and doing (action, intervention) as an experimental practice that contributes to the creation of knowledge and the construction of theory.

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An epistemologically fundamental problem in design research is contradiction between two opposing perspectives: • Belief that design research will lead to the activity of design being completely understood. • Belief that research into design will ultimately be limited because design activity is dependent on human creativity and human creativity cannot be deterministically modelled in the manner of simple physical research. Both perspectives are strongly represented in the design literature. The contradiction between them has not been resolved, or addressed in an epistemologically conclusive manner. This paper addresses this problem by outlining a proposal for a unified basis for design theory that builds on previous research by the author in integrating social, environmental, ethical and technical factors in design theory. There are significant advantages for addressing this contradiction to reduce the widely acknowledged epistemological problems found in the design research literat...

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