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Identity and affect in design cognition
conference contribution
posted on 2017-08-17, 10:12 authored by Tom Crick, John McCardleJohn McCardleMuch Design Research effort has been afforded to investigating how designers think and
what they do; often in the form of protocol analysis. These investigations have mainly
focused on how designers influence material culture however, little attention has been paid
to another line of enquiry; that is how the act of designing affects the individual undertaking
the work and the role of social psychological phenomena e.g. attitudes, evaluations,
emotions, impressions, motivations and social behaviour - on design activity.
This interplay of affect between design activity and a designer’s social psychological
behaviour is a complex two way process that warrants further investigation. Our research
agenda focuses on the individual undertaking design activity and asks how does designing
affect the designer and their behaviour?
In this paper two issues are addressed:
1. The immediate effects of design activity on the designer
2. The role of self-concept in design cognition
These two issues are investigated through a series of experiments carried out under semicontrolled conditions using several forms of observation and novel self-concept inventories. This paper draws attention to the need to consider self-concept and affect in design cognition and introduces the idea of design identity, which is uniquely different to the concept of design experience often quoted in the literature. This is an area of the ongoing
research agenda within the Department of Design and Technology, Loughborough University,
UK.
History
School
- Design
Published in
Undisciplined! Design Research Society Conference 2008 Undisciplined! Design Research Society Conference 2008Citation
CRICK, T. and MCCARDLE, J., 2009. Identity and affect in design cognition. IN: Durling, D. ...et al. (eds.), 2009. Undisciplined! Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2008, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, 16-19th July.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by Sheffield Hallam UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2009Notes
This is a conference paper. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in SHURA to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain.ISBN
9781843872931Publisher version
Language
- en