1151_互動設計研究 INTERACTION DESIGN RESEARCH

Interactive Design Research 2025 Fall

Interactive Design Research 2025 Fall PA61300 Instructors

Shyhnan Liou distinguished professor of ICID, shyhnan@mail.ncku.edu.tw Time: Friday, 9am to 12pm, Place: ICID 5153, office hour; by appointment

Introduction

This course concerns the methodology of conducting research to investigate issues related to design (as a product or as a process), as well as conducting research using design as a tool. The state-of-the-art of such methodology is the Living Lab approach and design thinking process. The Living Lab approach focuses on real-world contexts in which users were given the opportunity to use new products (thus allows research on design products). The Living Lab approach provides an environment in which users become members of the design team to co-create new products (thus allow research on design processes). Furthermore, the Living Lab approach enables an iterative process for open innovation through the collaboration of users and stakeholders in the continuous creation and validation of new products or services (as such design becomes a means of investigation into innovation).

The basic human-centered innovation process of living labs is Design Thinking. Design thinking is a formal method for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues, with the intent of an improved future result. In this regard it is a form of solution-focused thinking which starts with a goal (a better future situation) instead of solving one specific problem. Design thinking integrates empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality in analyzing and fitting various solutions to the problem context. The goal of Design Thinking is "matching people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and viable as a business strategy" Students expect to learn by knowing about how designers approach problems and the methods which they use to ideate, select and execute solutions, individuals and businesses will be better able to improve their own problem-solving processes and take innovation to a higher level.