{"title":"Natural Disaster Readiness and Response: Bringing Designers, Design Thinking, and Design Innovation into the Agenda","authors":"Owain Pedgley, Bahar Şener","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 2023, earthquakes struck Turkey, Syria, and Morocco, while torrential rain and floods hit Libya. When faced with images and eyewitness accounts of disasters, conscientious designers ask: how can design help in natural disaster readiness and response? Design and disaster management are rarely overlapping disciplines, resulting in little critical analysis on the role of design and designers in the context of disasters. This paper offers an overview of design for disaster. It acts as a guide and call for action, informing policymakers, managers, and other stakeholders on the contribution design can make to this challenging area. A case study approach is taken for exemplification and argumentation. Turkey serves as a poignant geographical example: rich in design capability, yet facing high risks from natural disasters. Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara forms the institutional case, notable as one of Turkey’s most research-intensive universities—and one that also possesses design for disaster experience. The major contribution of the paper is a preliminary framework on design for disaster readiness and response, directed at practical efforts and policymaking in what is an emerging inter- and trans-disciplinary field. Designers, design thinking, and design innovation can all take a role.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 120-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872624000273/pdfft?md5=6015a16c16d5f6d16dbfb79febe17b08&pid=1-s2.0-S2405872624000273-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Cultivation of Designers’ Emotional Connoisseurship (Part 1): A Theoretical Positioning","authors":"Haian Xue , Pieter M.A. Desmet , JungKyoon Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2024.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This two-part article explores the concept of emotional connoisseurship—the art of appreciating lived emotional experiences in emotion-driven design (EDD). In Part 1, we aim to establish and position the concept within the current EDD theoretical landscape. We first review the concept of connoisseurship, its origins, development, and relevance to professional practices. Second, building upon the existing design literature, we scrutinize the relationships between design connoisseurship and design expertise. We then conceptualize emotional connoisseurship as an essential skill that designers aspiring to practice EDD must actively cultivate, along with learning EDD theories, methods, and tools. After that, we reflect on how previous EDD research outcomes (i.e., emotional granularity design tools) can support the development of a designer’s emotional connoisseurship, especially in a schema-oriented or top-down manner, and argue the need for a sensibility-oriented or bottom-up approach. Part 1 sets the stage for Part 2. Part 2 will detail our pedagogical initiative supporting the self-cultivation of emotional connoisseurship among novice designers through a sensibility-oriented approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 9-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872624000236/pdfft?md5=ab47be2cb43f25a8a280f1a6a66d3ac5&pid=1-s2.0-S2405872624000236-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Envisioning Contestability Loops: Evaluating the Agonistic Arena as a Generative Metaphor for Public AI","authors":"Kars Alfrink , Ianus Keller , Mireia Yurrita Semperena , Denis Bulygin , Gerd Kortuem , Neelke Doorn","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2024.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Public sector organizations increasingly use artificial intelligence to augment, support, and automate decision-making. However, such public AI can potentially infringe on citizens’ right to autonomy. Contestability is a system quality that protects against this by ensuring systems are open and responsive to disputes throughout their life cycle. While a growing body of work is investigating contestable AI by design, little of this knowledge has so far been evaluated with practitioners. To make explicit the guiding ideas underpinning contestable AI research, we construct the generative metaphor of the Agonistic Arena, inspired by the political theory of agonistic pluralism. Combining this metaphor and current contestable AI guidelines, we develop an infographic supporting the early-stage concept design of public AI system contestability mechanisms. We evaluate this infographic in five workshops paired with focus groups with a total of 18 practitioners, yielding ten concept designs. Our findings outline the mechanisms for contestability derived from these concept designs. Building on these findings, we subsequently evaluate the efficacy of the Agonistic Arena as a generative metaphor for the design of public AI and identify two competing metaphors at play in this space: the Black Box and the Sovereign.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 53-93"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262400025X/pdfft?md5=814fb60fd91e9fcf5bf4e255cd7940cc&pid=1-s2.0-S240587262400025X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tame Problems, Wicked Possibilities: Interpreting the Distinction between Wicked and Tame Problems through the Cybernetic Concepts of Variety and Constraint","authors":"Ben Sweeting","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The distinction between wicked and tame problems has been a major influence on design and numerous other fields since it was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by design theorist Horst Rittel and urban designer Melvin Webber. The characteristics of wicked problems continue to resonate today, helping make sense of the complexities of contemporary challenges. Wicked and tame refer to types (rather than degrees) of difficulty, but what defines these types is not simply the domains in which problems occur, as in the dichotomy between scientific and social contexts originally put forward by Rittel and Webber. To clarify the distinction between wicked and tame, I ground it in the cybernetic concepts of variety and constraint, building on Rittel’s references to the cybernetician Ross Ashby. Understood in this way, wicked and tame do not refer to problems, or to the situations in which problems arise. Rather, wickedness and tameness are dynamics of possibilities (variety) in how multiple aspects of problems are perceived and responded to across the relationships in which designing (in its broadest senses) is embedded.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 32-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872624000248/pdfft?md5=a25843f10934153422518c109f721c6b&pid=1-s2.0-S2405872624000248-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simplifying Causality: A Brief Review of Philosophical Views and Definitions with Examples from Economics, Education, Engineering, Medicine, Policy, and Physics","authors":"M.Z. Naser","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.01.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This short paper compiles the main concepts behind some philosophical views, definitions, and examples of causality. This collection spans the realms of the four commonly adopted approaches to causality: Hume’s regularity, counterfactual, manipulation, and mechanisms. This short review is motivated by presenting simplified views and definitions and then supplements them with examples from various fields, including economics, education, medicine, politics, physics, and engineering. I hope this short review is helpful to new and interested readers with little knowledge of causality and causal inference.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages 437-457"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143197193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Creativity in the AIGC Era","authors":"Yongqi Lou","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent advances in artificial intelligence raise profound questions for humanity. Is the artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) technology merely a tool? Or is AIGC developing a level of creativity comparable to that of human beings? This essay explores the challenges and opportunities that AIGC technology brings to creativity, industry, and the ways of living of people around the world. These questions involve scale, authenticity, choice, and wisdom. Further, this essay addresses the core capabilities of future creative workers in the era of AIGC. The author believes that the ability to create meaning—meaning making—is and will remain a distinctive strength of human creativity in the AIGC era. To build on this strength, human beings must focus on six key areas: human-centered values, paradigmatic innovation, holistic experiences, cultural awareness, situational connections, and narrative reasoning. The best outcome for the AIGC is to make machines more machine-like and humans more human. Achieving this goal requires a cultural renaissance. We must break through the limits of computational rationality with the brilliance of humanity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages 541-552"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143197200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Faiz A. Hashmi , Oskar Burger , Micah B. Goldwater , Tracy Johnson , Sudipta Mondal , Palash Singh , Cristine H. Legare
{"title":"Integrating Human-Centered Design and Social Science Research to Improve Service-Delivery and Empower Community Health Workers: Lessons from Project RISE","authors":"Faiz A. Hashmi , Oskar Burger , Micah B. Goldwater , Tracy Johnson , Sudipta Mondal , Palash Singh , Cristine H. Legare","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims to communicate insights from a collaboration between human-centered designers and social science researchers. We report the insights from Project RISE (Rituals to Improve Service-delivery and Empower health workers), which employed a complex systems approach to understanding Accredited Social Health Activists’ motivations and performance in Bihar, India. We describe the process of interdisciplinary integration between human-centered design and mixed-method social science research. We describe insights from each phase of Project RISE. In the Discover phase, we engaged in an expansive and inclusive ideation process informing the formulation of research questions and mixed methodology. Design-led synthesis transformed research findings into actionable, context-specific insights. In the Define phase, we integrated mixed methods rigor with the design process to identify opportunities instrumental in shaping the development of design drivers and solution concepts. We engaged in inclusive prototyping and open-source collaboration to prototype productive solutions in the Create phase. We detail the challenges encountered and the strategies to address them in each phase. Integrating human-centered design and social science research can tackle community health workers’ complex challenges and create more productive public health solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages 489-517"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143197199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joon Sang Baek , Gyuchan Thomas Jun , Jiwon Lee , Eunho Jo , Hyoun K. Kim
{"title":"Unleashing the Potential of AcciMap in Identifying and Anticipating Systemic Failures: A Case Study of Child Abuse Prevention through Design","authors":"Joon Sang Baek , Gyuchan Thomas Jun , Jiwon Lee , Eunho Jo , Hyoun K. Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sheji.2024.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study proposes a new application of AcciMap, a tool initially created within safety science. AcciMap assists designers by identifying and anticipating systemic conditions that have contributed to prior failures and may influence the implementation of new design interventions. For validation, we applied AcciMap to analyze factors contributing to child abuse cases in South Korea. This process identified potential facilitators and barriers related to the implementation of a child abuse assessment checklist developed by the research team. We found that AcciMap enables designers to apply systems thinking to complex problems. It allows the consideration of potential implementation issues for new design interventions across multiple levels, helping designers understand and anticipate the complex systemic structures affecting their intervention. By exploring how AcciMap can be used for in-depth sociotechnical system analysis, this study contributes to advancing our understanding of systemic design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages 458-488"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143197197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors and Acknowledgment to Referees 2023","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2405-8726(24)00011-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2405-8726(24)00011-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37146,"journal":{"name":"She Ji-The Journal of Design Economics and Innovation","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages I-X"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143197201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}