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Supporting novice designers design of digital touch
Carey Jewitt1, Val Mitchell2, Garrath Wilson2
1UCL Knowledge Lab, Dept Culture, Communication & Media, IOE UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Digitally mediated touch is an emerging and significant area for technology and therefore for design and design education. However, the design of digital touch is a challenge, especially for novice designers, compounded by low awareness and understanding of the sociality of touch and the complexity of communicating felt sensations. This paper presents a qualitative study of a two-part educational intervention on the design of digital touch using a design-based research methodology. Findings are presented and discussed on the design challenges faced by novice designers in relation to touch and digital touch (the focus of part one of the intervention) and the development and piloting of the Designing Digital Touch (DDT) toolkit (the outcome of part two). The paper discusses how the toolkit can be used to foster and support novice designers to respond to the future facing complexity of digital touch design.
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