Consumer products come in many flavors and incorporate many areas of knowledge. The
area of product design ranges from train-interiors to tea-cups and from high-design juice …

Recent developments in design research concentrate on two themes (1) the unity of form,
function and interaction and (2) the semantics of movement. The Design Movement …

“The variations of human movement are legion: reflexes, gestures, accommodating
manoeuvres, posturing, precise complex articulations, random actions, and practical and …

This paper presents and evaluates examples from our work with role playing exercises in
design, both in design education and in our own design work. Rationales for role playing in …

In approximately the last ten years, there have been reports of of role playing techniques in
the designrelated literature. The paper examines the rationales being given in the literature …

This paper presents and evaluates examples from our work with role playing in design
education. Rationales for role playing in design are: communication within the design …

Aesthetic aspects of interaction have become a well-discussed issue. In this article we
present some early results from an ongoing doctoral project focusing on exploring the area …

Dematerialization is an ongoing process in today's generation of intelligent, digital products.
Content becomes disengaged from fixed carriers, and flows freely through networks and …

Human movement is central to instrumental musical performance. Beyond the apparent
connection between sound-producing actions and the sounds themselves, movement can …

This paper presents and evaluates examples from our work with role playing exercises in
design, both in design education and in our own design work. First, rationales for the …