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Interacting with classic design engineering
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Petersen, ES and Nyce, JM and Lutzhoft, MH, Interacting with classic design engineering, Interacting With Computers, 27, (4) pp. 440-457. ISSN 0953-5438 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Triggered by our occasionally tense field experiences relating to the implementation and
institutionalization of usability in design engineering organizations that are characterized by
traditional engineering education and thinking, we have earlier suspected that the activities associated
with human-centered design were orthogonal to the design engineering practices otherwise in place.
While noting that other human factors professionals have had comparable challenges relating to
multidisciplinary design, we have, however, reached a point where we rather are suggesting that
the ontological, epistemological and methodological grounding of classic design engineering, under
some circumstances, could be the direct cause for friction between that discipline and that of human
factors. In a way taking our own medicine, we have thus arrived at a place where we are realizing the
need for an ethnographical exploration and improved understanding of classic design engineering
fundamentals, appreciating that a more successful and fruitful interaction and cooperation with
that essential discipline very well could spring from a deeper and more nuanced understanding
of the mindset of the classic design engineer. The main part of the present paper pivots around
developing such an insight, hoping to contribute to the effective, efficient and satisfactory outcome of
multidisciplinary cooperation for those who find themselves being tasked with human-centric work
in traditional engineering organizations.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | user centered-design; usability; ethnographic studies; software development methods; software design engineering |
| Research Division: | Psychology |
| Research Group: | Applied and developmental psychology |
| Research Field: | Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) |
| Objective Division: | Transport |
| Objective Group: | Water transport |
| Objective Field: | Water safety |
| UTAS Author: | Lutzhoft, MH (Professor Margareta Lutzhoft) |
| ID Code: | 89826 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | Seafaring and Maritime Operations |
| Deposited On: | 2014-03-17 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-02-02 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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