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Design Research in Digital Humanities: User Experience and Trust

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This lecture discusses the intersection of design research and digital humanities, focusing on the role of user experience in technology adoption. It highlights the importance of trust in digital media, particularly in combating misinformation and enhancing user engagement with digital heritage. The instructor emphasizes the need for innovative approaches that integrate design and technology to create impactful solutions. The EPFL+ECAL Lab's research methodology is presented, which combines experimental design practices with user perception studies. The lecture also addresses the challenges of making digital heritage accessible and engaging for broader audiences. By examining factors that influence user acceptance, the instructor advocates for a shift from purely technology-driven innovation to a more user-centered design approach. This involves understanding the cultural context and subjective experiences of users, ultimately aiming to foster sustainable innovation in the digital humanities.

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Software development: Human–computer interaction

Related concepts (32)

User experience design

User experience design (UX design, UXD, UED, or XD) is the process of defining the experience a user would go through when interacting with a company, its services, and its products. Design decisions in UX design are often driven by research, data analysis, and test results rather than aesthetic preferences and opinions. Unlike user interface design, which focuses solely on the design of a computer interface, UX design encompasses all aspects of a user's perceived experience with a product or website, such as its usability, usefulness, desirability, brand perception, and overall performance.

User experience

The user experience (UX) is how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system or service. It includes a person's perceptions of utility, ease of use, and efficiency. Improving user experience is important to most companies, designers, and creators when creating and refining products because negative user experience can diminish the use of the product and, therefore, any desired positive impacts; conversely, designing toward profitability often conflicts with ethical user experience objectives and even causes harm.

Design

A design is a concept of either an object, a process, or a system that is specific and, in most cases, detailed. Design refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, though it is sometimes used to refer to the nature of something. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan may also be considered to be a design (such as in some artwork and craftwork).

Design thinking

Design thinking refers to the set of cognitive, strategic and practical procedures used by designers in the process of designing, and to the body of knowledge that has been developed about how people reason when engaging with design problems. Design thinking is also associated with prescriptions for the innovation of products and services within business and social contexts. Design thinking has a history extending from the 1950s and '60s, with roots in the study of design cognition and design methods.

Design research

Design research was originally constituted as primarily research into the process of design, developing from work in design methods, but the concept has been expanded to include research embedded within the process of design, including work concerned with the context of designing and research-based design practice. The concept retains a sense of generality, aimed at understanding and improving design processes and practices quite broadly, rather than developing domain-specific knowledge within any professional field of design.

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