Sensitizing Scenarios: Sensitizing Designer Teams to Theory

Waern, Annika; Rajkowska, Paulina; Johansson, Karin B.; Back, Jon; Spence, Jocelyn; L�vlie, Anders Sundnes

Abstract

Concepts and theories that emerge within the social sciences tend to be nuanced, dealing with complex social phenomena. While their relevance to design could be high, it is difficult to make sense of them in design projects, especially when participants have a variety of backgrounds. We report on our experiences using role-play scenarios as a way to sensitize heterogeneous designer teams to complex theoretical concepts related to museology as social and cultural phenomena. We discuss design requirements on such scenarios, and the importance of connecting their execution closely to the context of the design and the current stage of the design process.

Citation

Waern, A., Rajkowska, P., Johansson, K. B., Back, J., Spence, J., & Løvlie, A. S. (2020). Sensitizing Scenarios: Sensitizing Designer Teams to Theory. In CHI 20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376620

• Conference Name: CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Conference Location: Honolulu HI USA
• Start Date: Apr 25, 2020
• End Date: Jul 29, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Dec 9, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 23, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 9, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 13, 2020
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 1–13
• Book Title: CHI 20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 978145036708-0
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376620
• Keywords: Sensitizing Concepts; Sensitizing Designers; Role-Play; Social Science Theory
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4758209
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376620