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