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     Design and the Social Sciences: making connections
     (Editor: Jorge Frascara)
 
     From the Bookshelf: 	
     Visual Representations and Interpretations 
     (Editors: R. Paton & I. Neilson)

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1) TITLE: Design and the Social Sciences: making connections

  EDITOR: Jorge Frascara

 SUMMARY: This book explains how social psychology, sociology and 
          anthropology can provide valuable techniques for 
          investigating the relationship between people and 
          design. Designers can use these techniques to assess 
          the role that products and the built environment play 
          in peoples' lives and apply this knowledge in the 
          setting of product requirements, for example ergonomic 
          user requirements, such as usability and accessibility 
          and functional and aesthetic issues. The resulting 
          products will not only be functional and ergonomically 
          sound, they will also accord much better with the 
          lifestyle and aspirations of those who experience them. 

CONTENTS:
Preface. 
 1 From user-centered to participatory design approaches 
   (E.B.-N. Sanders) 
 2 Human factors for pleasure seekers (P.W. Jordan) 
 3 Communications artifacts: the design of objects and the object 
   of design (J. Wilson) 
 4 People-centered design: complexities and uncertainties 
   (J. Frascara) 
 5 Social sciences and design innovation (B. Meurer) 
 6 Design language: confluence of behavioural, social and 
   cultural factors (D.R. Winkler) 
 7 Design moves: approximating a desired future with users
   (S.H. Poggenpohl)
 8 Emotion and urban experience: implications for design 
   (A. Burns)
 9 An interdisciplinary approach in the development of design
   knowledge and its application: the case of wayfinding research 
   and design (R. Passini)
10 Preventing drug interactions in older adults: a collaborative 	
   study (Z. Strickler & P. Neafsey)
11 Fieldnotes from home: anthropology and design on exhibition 
   (R. Bridgman)  
12 Research and design collaboration: a case study (L. St Pierre)
13 The technical and the social in engineering education
   (M. Ertsen)
14 Making connections: design and the social sciences 
   (D. Rochfort)
15 Appearance, form, and the retrieval of prior knowledge
   (P. Dixon, T. O'Reilly)
16 The Influence of affect on cognitive processes (R.C. Sinclair,
   S.E. Moore, C.A. Lavis, A.S. Soldat)
17 Gendered spaces of domesticity (R.A. Sydie)
18 Social science as a design profession: new visions and 
   relationships (R. Shields)
19 Two weddings and still no funeral: sociology, design and the 
   interprofessional project (C. Nippert-Eng) 
20 Design and the social sciences  (The working groups)
21 Conclusions: design and the social sciences, a reconnaissance
   (J. Frascara) 
Index

hardcover, 238 pages
Price: USD 96.00 Euro  GBP 60.00
Published: April 2002
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415273765

Webpages about this book:
http://www.ergonomicsarena.com/ergonomicsarena/books.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=0415273765

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From the Bookshelf: 

   TITLE: Visual Representations and Interpretations 

 EDITORS: Ray Paton & Irene Neilson

 SUMMARY: It could be justifiably argued that many of the 
          advances in science and engineering take place because 
          the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one 
          discipline become re-applied in others. Many subject 
          areas develop specialised vocabularies and concepts and 
          indeed may also approach more general problems in 
          fairly narrow subject-specific ways. This volume 
          contains papers written by researchers in the many 
          varied disciplines that are actively investigating 
          visual representations and interpretations.

CONTENTS:
- Introduction: A multidisciplinary perspective on visual 
  representations and interpretations (I. Neilson)
- Realism and representation: pictures, models and theories  
  (A. Harrison)
- Words and pictures - Goodman revisited  (J.R. Lee) 
- Mathematics and knots (R. Brown)
- A visual, computational object language for mathematics 
  (P. Kent) 
- A visual metaphor for psychoanalytic training and supervision 
  (C.A. Lund, R.C. Paton) 
- Geomentality: reframing the landscape (N. de Freitas) 
- Graphically representing causal sequences in accident   
  scenarios: just some of the issues (J. Hill, P. Wright)
- Automated interpretation of visual representations: extracting 
  textual information from WWW images (A. Antonacopoulos, 
  F. Delporte) 
- Models and type-hierarchies: cognitive foundations of iconic   
  thinking (R. Harre)
- Defining visual representation as a creative and interactive  
  modality (A. Ione)
- Theories and models: the interactive view (R.F. Hendry)
- Visual representations and interpretations of molecular 
  electronic structure: the survival and re-emergence of valence 
  bond theory (D.L. Cooper)
- The language of proteins (J.H. Parish)
- Atomistic versus continuous representations in molecular  
  biology (D.S. Goodsell)
- NetWork: a tool for visualisation of genetic network structure 
  and dynamics (V.N. Serov, O.V. Kirillova, M.G. Samsonova)
- Signs and representations: semiotics for user interface design 
  (G. Malcolm, J.A. Goguen) 
- Is the trashcan being ironic? Analysing direct manipulation 
  user interfaces using a contemporary theory of metaphor 
  (M. Treglown)
- Visualisation of data landscapes for collaborative virtual 
  environments (D. England) 
- Interpreting computer-based fictional characters, a reader's 
  manifesto: or remarks in favour of the accommodating text 
  (S. J. Sloane) 
- The boundaries of a shape and the shape of boundaries 
  (C.F. Earl)
- Breaking the monotony: using randomisation techniques in 
  computer-aided textile design (H. Carlisle, P. Phillips, 
  G. Bunce)
- Virtual world representation issues for supporting assembly 
  and maintainability assessment tasks (T. Fernando, 
  P. Wimalaratne, K. Tan)
- Toward electronic napkins and beermats: computer support for  
  visual ideation skills (P.J. Stappers, J. M. Hennessey)
- Computational support for conceptual sketching: analysis and 
  interpretation of the graphical notation of visual 
  representations  (J. Mcfadzean)
- Learning to see architecturally (C. Tweed)
- Studying 'holes' to understand visual representation 
  (A.E. Welchman, J.M. Harris)
- Articulation of spatial information: 3D shapes (T. Marsh, 
  P. Wright)
- Mental image reinterpretation in the intersection of conceptual 
  and visual constraints (R. Kovordanyi)
- Embodied presence in virtual environments (T. Schubert, 
  F. Friedmann, H. Regenbrecht)
- A taxonomy of visual metaphors (C. Dormann)
- Analysis of representations in model-based teaching and 
  learning in science (B.C. Buckley, C.J. Boulter)
- From Gutenberg to Gates: the creation of the photographic 
  negative, the consequent evolution of a visual language, and 
  its impact on the way societies represent and read their 
  world(s) (S.R. Edwards)
- Theatricality and levels of believability in graphical virtual 
  environments  (D.K. Manley) 
- Visual representation and taxonomy (H. Clapin) 
- Interpreting Wittgenstein's graphics (M.A.R. Biggs)
- Visualising complex sequential and parallel programs 
  (M.A. Beaumont, D. Jackson, M. Usher)
- 3D software visualisation (P. Young, M. Munro)
- Visualisation of the OBJ term re-writing process 
  (D.S. Neary, M.R. Woodward) 
- A visual representation of mathematical expressions
  (C.N. Yap, M. Holcombe)
- Visualisation of an AI solution (A.G.P. Brown, F.P. Coenen,
  M.W. Knight) 
- A model for multimodal representation and inference
  (L. Pineda, G. Garza)
- Visualisation in document retrieval: an example of the 
  integration of software ergonomics and an aesthetic quality in  
  design  (B.E. Burdek, M. Eibl, J. Krause) 
- Visualising dynamic browsing patterns via navigation agents 
  (D. Reid, C. Gittings) 
Author Index 

Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 1999
403 pages
Paperback: ISBN: 1852330821 / Euro 89,95 USD 92.85

Webpages about this book:
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=1-85233-082-1
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1852330821
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