Interpreting Needs and Aspirations
Monday 2 April, afternoon
Main Session
14:15 Lecture Theatre 1
- Search Engines for Real Needs: The interactions between users and designers
- Clive Grinyer
- When fashion meets discretion
- Graham Pullin
- Project Zoo: when students, keepers, orang-utans, seals, bears and baboons become design partners
- Daria Loi
- Evaluating the Accessibility of Medical Equipment
- Molly Story, Jack Winters, Melissa Lemke, David Rempel
Session 1 — Creating Empathy: The user voice in design
16:30 Lecture Theatre 1
- Creative workshops for interpreting and communicating rich user information
- Remko van der Lugt, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser
- “Accentuate the positive” Investigating knitwear for the 3D body shape of larger women
- Vikki Haffenden
- The wardrobe and well being: exploring relationships between women living with rheumatoid arthritis and their clothing.
- Fiona Candy, Lynne Goodacre
- Design research methods and criteria that enable fashion designers to meet the needs of wheelchair users
- Grace Meacham, Phyllis Borcherding
- Design Back-story: Empathy, witnessing, reflection and the inclusive response
- Sue Thomas
Session 2 — Margins to Mainstream: Users and stakeholders in the design process
16:30 Senior Common Room
- Multi Stakeholder Co-Assessment: a process to guide the selection of personal healthcare innovations
- Bram Kersten, Bruce Thomas, Mili Docampo Rama
- Talk With Your Hands. Tools to reduce the communication gap between hearing impaired children and their families.
- Elva-Yadira Ornelas, Martha Estela Perez
- Engaging Children in the Design of a Rehabilitative Game Interface
- Raymond Holt, Nicholas Preston, Andrew Weightman, Matthew Allsop, Bipinchandra Bhakta, Martin Levesley
- Developing design frameworks in the analysis of user research to assist communication and design evaluation
- Katherine Gough
- Getting the shy to talk: scripts and staging for contextmapping
- Helma van Rijn, Pieter Jan Stappers
Workshop 2
16:30 Lecture Theatre 2
- Wearable simulators: are they any use?
- Carlos Cardoso, Nicholas Reddall, P John Clarkson